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In this section, we´ve collected papers that have been published by various authors. They offer us a deeper look on the economic behavior of the EOC and related themes.




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Bruni, Luigino

Il caso dell'acqua. L'economia alle prese con i beni comuni

in Nuova Umanità n.193, 2011/01 vol XXXIII - Gennaio-Febbraio 2011

Nuova_Umanit193La scienza economica ha tradizionalmente trascurato il tema dei beni collettivi, e questo a causa del suo impianto metodologico individualista. I beni collettivi sono quei beni (come l’ambiente o la scala del condominio) che vengono consumati contemporaneamente da più persone e dove il consumo di un soggetto riduce il consumo di un altro. Quando si è in presenza di beni collettivi o comuni (commons) potrebbe verificarsi la cosiddetta “tragedia dei commons”, evidenziata dal biologo Hardin nel 1968. L’articolo legge il  consumo dell’acqua in questa prospettiva, e propone alcune ipotesi di soluzione del problema.

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Paglione, M. Licia  - Serafim, Maurício C.

Quale sviluppo di comunione? L'Economia di comunione e la sua idea di realizzazione umana

in Nuova Umanità n.192, 2010/06 vol XXXII - pp. 703 - 723

Nuova_Umanit193I temi dello sviluppo e della povertà ricorrono con sempre più frequenza nel dibattito economico e politico nazionale e internazionale degli ultimi anni, caratterizzato dall’impegno a liberare ogni essere umano dalla condizione abietta e disumana della povertà estrema, e a rendere il diritto allo sviluppo una realtà per ogni individuo. Tale impegno è stato sintetizzato, durante un importante Vertice mondiale delle Nazioni Unite (2000) in otto Obiettivi di Sviluppo, da realizzare entro il 2015. Essi comprendono un’ampia gamma di aspetti che sottendono idee di povertà e di sviluppo molto più complesse di quelle più comuni, derivanti dal pensiero economico mainstream, che le riducono a faccende solo materiali e quantitative.

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Bruni, Luigino

Reciprocity and Gratuitousness in the Market

The proposal of Caritas in Veritate

1001_Agg_Sociali_ridBenedict XVI´s encyclical Caritas in Veritate1 is a very rich and complex text which deserves to be delved into. After a summarized presentation in the September-October 2009 issue 2, this issue is the first of Aggiornamenti Sociali to open the way to a new Forum dedicated to the encyclical, aimed at offering diverse reading perspectives on the document. The first presentation has been entrusted to Prof. Luigino Bruni,economist, who addresses the role of the categories of reciprocity and gratuitousness in economic theory.

The most relevant novelty that Caritas in Veritate presents for contemporary economic theory and praxis is the affirmation that reciprocity and gratuitousness are founding principles, even for the economy and the market - and not only the non-profit market, volunteering or social economy, but for all ordinary economic life, from banks to multi-national businesses.

The thesis may sound revolutionary, and one could legitimately question whether or not it has theoretical backing. To be able to respond affirmatively to this question, it would be necessary to remove the theoretical field of incorrect interpretations, or partial ones, about the concepts of reciprocity and gratuitousness. In fact, the current use of these terms, which economic science makes, is certainly different than that which we find in CV. Only after having critically discussed these categories will it be possible to understand in what sense and for what reasons these can find a significant role in today´s market economy.

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Fazzi, Luca

Editorial of the issue of Impresa Sociale on the Economy of Communion
Published in Impresa Sociale - N. 3-2009

Today, the concept of social entreprise is the subject of wide and articulate scientific and political discussion. Different from its American meaning, in European tradition "social enterprise" refers to a specific type of enterprise characterized by the pursuit of social objectives and by normative bonds to the distribution of profits.

Looking closely, this concept of social enerprise is not exhaustive of the series of initiatives and business projects that, although not conditioned by legislative limits to profit distribution, voluntarily decide to destine a part of their profits to social activities.

Among the various social enterprise initiatives not bound by law to use their profits for social ends, there is also the Economy of Communion project.


Bruni, Luigino

Editorial
What the Economic Crisis Teaches Us
in Nuova Umanità n.182, vol.XXXI, 2009/02
Translation by N. Michael Brennen, michael@michaelbrennen.com, revised August 2009

Even apart from the instability due to speculation, there is the instability due to the characteristic of human nature that a large proportion of our positive activities depend on spontaneous optimism rather than on a mathematical expectation … [our activities] can only be taken as a result of 'animal spirits'....”
(J. M. Keynes. General Theory, 1936)

They had gone almost half way when the Fox, halting suddenly, said to the puppet:
"Would you like to double your money?"
"In what way?"
"Would you like to make out of your five miserable sovereigns, a hundred, a thousand, two thousand?"
"I should think so! but in what way?"
"The way is easy enough.  Instead of returning home you must go with us."
"And where do you wish to take me?"
"To the land of the Owls.
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(Collodi, Carlo.  The Adventures of Pinocchio. ch. XII)

The desire to possess money and to accumulate wealth is a strong passion in human beings, analogous to the sexual drive and to the desire for fame or power. For this reason civilizations have always thought that such passions require education and social institutions to regulate them, and, just perhaps, to transform and reorient these deep passions into some sort of common good.


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Fernandes, Valdir - Sant'ana, Fernando Soares Pinto
A racionalidade da economia de comunhão e responsabilidade socioambiental: a gestão organizacional influenciada por valores espirituais

Desenvolvimento e Meio Ambiente, jan/jun 2010, editora UFPR

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Amelia J.Uelmen

Caritas in veritate and Chiara Lubich: Human Development from the vantage point of Unity
published on Theological Studies, volume 71, pages 29-45 (03-2010)

Amy_UelmenWithin the vibrant life of the Catholic Church today, many currents of spirituality and specific projects can shed light on the encyclical’s themes and provide examples of what its principles might look like in practice. This note focuses on how Chiara Lubich’s spirituality of unity might offer a helpful way for people to understand how to live these principles in their everyday lives. It also discusses how the “Economy of Communion” and other concrete projects and practices of Focolare, the movement Lubich founded, foster economic justice and human development.

At a certain point in his marvelous and still timely essay on love,Josef Pieper struggled with whether the idea of universal love might make any practical difference in the world.
He wrote: On the one hand, universal human love cannot accomplish anything practical in the world; man’s historical predicaments cannot be solved by love. But on the other hand . . . universal love is not simply an unrealistic fantasy.

Caritas in veritate and Chiara Lubich: Human Development from the vantage point of Unity


Bruni, Luigino and Luca Crivelli

Introduction to the Issue of Impresa Sociale on Economy of Communion

Published in Impresa Sociale - n. 3-2009

1. One of the strongest and clearest messages that come from these times of crisis is the economic and ethical insuffiencency of a capitalism founded on its own interests and on "sad passions". The market economy, in order to be able to continue to bring fruit to civilization, needs a supplement of humanity, of an anthropological and moral refoundation that makes it evolve into something else - an economic system more tailor-made to the person – without having to renounce the values and conquests that the market has brought and brings to the areas of individual liberty and equality.

This issue is dedicated to the experience of the Economy of Communion (EoC), which readers will have the chance to know better under various aspects. The EoC is a project of social entrepreneurship involving around 750 businesses, but which is also a more articulate and universal proposal of supportive and relational economic behavior. The inspirational moment of the concrete project took place in Brazil, in May of 1991, while Chiara Lubich, foundress of the Focolare Movement, was visiting the movement´s community of Sao Paulo. However, its roots dig much deeper: into the history of the early times of the Focolare in Trent, during World War II; in the Franciscan charism from which Chiara drew her first inspirations (and her own new name as a tertiary: her baptismal name was Silvia); and in the Trentino cooperative tradition, in which Chiara grew up and was formed.


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Bruni, Luigino

Il Lavoro come Amore
Per una rilettura antropologica del discorso economico
pubblicato su Sophia - Ricerche su i fondamenti e la correlazione dei saperi - 2008 n°0

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La mancanza di riflessione profonda sul lavoro è una delle gravi lacune della teoria economica contemporanea, che ormai da decenni ha smesso di interrogarsi sulla natura del lavoro per concentrarsi unicamente sul lavoratore inteso come risorsa umana o come capitale umano che risponde, razionalmente, ad incentivi e sanzioni.

Anche l’attuale crisi finanziaria, ed economica, globale mostra con grande forza che il lavoro umano è decisamente relegato sullo sfondo del nostro modello di sviluppo capitalistico, sempre più in mano alla finanza che ha perso ogni contatto con la fatica del lavoro.


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Gui, Benedetto
Libri
Economia e bene comune. Spilli, torte, secchi bucati e altro ancora
in Nuova Umanità n.180, vol.XXX (2008/6)

«Un uomo trafila il metallo, un altro raddrizza il filo, un terzo lo taglia, un quarto gli fa la punta, un quinto lo schiaccia all'estremità dove deve inserirsi la capocchia…  [H]o visto una piccola manifattura di questo tipo dov'erano impiegati soltanto dieci uomini … [che]  erano in grado …. di fabbricare, fra tutti, … quarantottomila spilli … al giorno. Se invece avessero lavorato tutti in modo separato e indipendente … non avrebbero certamente potuto fabbricare neanche venti spilli al giorno per ciascuno…»

Questi celeberrimi fotogrammi scattati e commentati da Adam Smith ancora nel tardo settecento sintetizzano un primo tradizionale tema in fatto di economia e interesse collettivo: lavorare in modo specializzato e coordinato consente ai membri del sistema economico di ottenere una quantità complessiva di prodotti molto maggiore.

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