Abstract
Explore the emerging new economic models, their characteristics, and their impact on the real economy, including collaborative, circular, and social economies.
Extract
[...] Furthermore, their objective is not solely profit and can consist of promoting social ties, helping the most disadvantaged, protecting the environment, or allowing users to benefit from positive impacts in their lives. II- Effects of these economies in the real world A. New outlets in the real economy Like any economy, these economies create new outlets in the real economy in terms of sectors and jobs. It creates new sectors such as, for example, in the circular economy which is newly deployed in the sectors of in construction, logistics, commerce, retail signage, and waste management. [...]
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[...] The main characteristics of these different economies A. Definitions of different economies The different economies mentioned respond to different definitions: - The economy collaborative is an economy that 'rests on the sharing or exchange of goods, services, time or knowledge, with or without monetary exchanges'1. It aims to promote social bonding among the people who make it up and facilitate the exchange of goods and services between them ; - The economy participative is a particular economy implemented within companies, mainly, in which decisions taken benefit the greatest number (employees, consumers, external users)2 ; - The economy circulaire « consists of producing goods and services in a sustainable way by limiting the consumption and waste of resources and the production of waste3 ; - The economy social and solidarity is the most widespread alternative economy in France of private sector employees of Gross Domestic Product and over 200,000 companies)4. [...]
[...] Today, with the circular economy, waste is treated in a closed circuit: from production, through consumption, to recycling, and potentially through reuse for companies7. B. The example of the collaborative economy: the case of the Vinted site We've all heard it in an advertisement. The Vinted slogan 'you don't wear it, sell it'. Vinted is known for being a site where individuals can resell clothes they no longer wear (second-hand clothes), allowing them to have a supplementary income, offer affordable clothes to other consumers and limit the overconsumption of new clothes. [...]
[...] Reuse corresponds to the fact of reusing several times a packaging to limit waste for ecological preservation purposes. Furthermore, by 2050, this new circular economy should allow the creation of nearly 196,000 jobs, particularly in the construction sector. B. Desirable social effects Also, some of these economies act specifically in favor of the most deprived or those furthest from employment. This is particularly the case in the Social and Solidarity Economy, which is made up of companies such as mutual societies, cooperatives, and associations. [...]
