Over the past few decades, social enterprises have grown remarkably. This paper investigates how social enterprises affect access to social services (e.g., education and health‐care) and utilitarian welfare. To this end, two economic systems are compared: a market economy system, where all...

We consider an economy made up by two industrial sectors. Sector A produces a good. Sector B supplies a social service. Each industry is characterized by a Hotelling-type linear segment where two firms are located at the extremes. We compare two different economic systems. A market economy where...