In *Danger & opportunity* (2009) Robin offered a mapping of four 'blobs' - four economies - as the framework for further thinking about 'the new social economy'. One of these blobs - called by Robin 'the grant-funded economy' - seemed puzzling: familiar but at the same time hard to recognise. This chapter is an investigation of it.
>Murray 2009, Danger & opportunity - Crisis and the new social economy pdf 
The chapter proceeds in five phases:
Robin offered a map of four economies implicated in the provision and access of material means - the real economy. Here we unpack some of the complexities, highlighting the mutual sector - alongside the state, the market and the household - and the centrality of commons in the new social economy.
The mutual sector is highly plural. Here we develop a frame addressing the plurality and demonstrating the pivotal historical significance of the sector.
In thinking about the practice of producing a new mode of production, concepts of a transition through regimes of dual power are central. Here we look at three settings of dual power, highlighting the pivotal place of the mutual sector, and propose commons as a form of dual power.
Here we propose characteristics of what needs to be new, in 'the new social economy'; and highlight what is new in the interpretation that we have developed, of Robin's four regimes of provision in the real economy.
Here we summarise why the mutual sector is pivotal in the new social economy and make some proposals for further work.
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