Utopia in Action

Written by Antonella Ferrucci Monday, 22 March 2010 18:49

Isaline Bourgenot Dutru

Utopia in Action

Cittá Nuova Publishers, Rome, 2010

An entrepreneur with an extraordinary inventiveness - so much so that he contributed 35 new patents - François Neveux (1936-2006), from the moment of his working debut, lived out his work activity with a not so common attention to interpersonal relationships. When he found out about the Economy of Communion, promoted by Chiara Lubich, foundress of the Focolare Movement - he moved to Brazil where he put his talent, professional experience and money at the service of the development of this project. Through the accounts of those who knew him, the authors traces over his adventure as a professional and as a person.

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Special Issue of Impresa Sociale

Written by Antonella Ferrucci Sunday, 14 February 2010 22:45

The Special Issue of Impresa Sociale on the EoC, dedicated to Chiara Lubich, has been published

Special Issue of Impresa Sociale

Impresa Sociale - July/September 2009

Impresa Sociale is a monographic journal, edited by Euricse, the European Research Institute on Cooperative and Sociale Enterprise, in Trent. Having begun more than 19 years ago, the journal has brought ahead a visionary and pioneering mission: to promote, accompany and help the complex reality of non-profit in Italy to self-evolve. The journal has followed all the stages of social and entrepreneurial growth in this sector, becoming always more important. It is now one of the sector´s major points of reference.

The latest issue to press, N.3 of 2009, is entirely dedicated to the Economy of Communion. As Luca Fazzi writes in the journal´s editorial, "This issue of the Journal, dedicated entirely to the topic of the Economy of Communion, wants to provide important stimulus for reflection, considering within which boundaries can one legitimately speak about social businesses and highlighting, at the same time, how the challenge of doing social business is that of contaminating the non-profit world with that of the market."

Ethos of the Market

Written by Luigino Bruni Monday, 28 December 2009 17:03

Bruno Mondadori, Milano, 2010

In the last two centuries, capitalism has reached extraordinary economic, technological and civil results, playing an important role in transforming society. Howver, it has lost on the playing ground of fraternity. That is why, today, capitalism has become obsolete. The crisis at the beginning of the third millenium (from terrorism to the environment, from finance to energy) shows with extraordinary strength that the market economy is using up every force of social and incivilizing change, because we´re paying the consequences in the area of individual freedom with the coins of environment and social relationships.

La crisi economica - appello a una nuova responsabilità

Written by Antonella Ferrucci Wednesday, 16 September 2009 10:01

Baggio Antonio Maria, Bruni Luigino, Coda Piero

La crisi economica - appello a una nuova responsabilità (The Economic Crisis - an appeal for new responsibility)

Città Nuova, Roma, 2009
UNIVERSITAS Series
pp. 96, € 6,00

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The crisis that we are living is not only economic or financial. It collides with the model of development that we have followed for the last two centuries, pushing us to a new and radical reflection on capitalism. From different disciplines - economy, politics and theology - the authors outline a way of reading the profound reasons for the crisis. Though recognizing the goodness of the market´s values, they single out the concept of going beyond the economic culture founded on individual-centeredness and profit outside of the rules, and that of returning to an economy of the ethics and values of gratuitousness and reciprocity as the way out of the current situation.

Dizionario di Economia Civile

Written by Luigino Bruni e Stefano Zamagni Thursday, 06 August 2009 12:48

Bruni, Luigino and Stefano Zamagni (Editors)

Dizionario di Economia Civile (Dictionary of Civil Economy)

The civil dimension of the economy in which the market is an open space for reciprocity and solidarity.

Città Nuova, Rome, 2009

pp. 832, € 65,00

see introduction (in italian)

Through three guiding principles - theoritical backing, experiences and people (scholars, workers and entrepreneurs) - the Dictionary intends to give "voice" to the civil dimension of economy.

Starting from the conviction that market, business and economy are also in themselves places of gratuitousness and fraternity, civil economy proposes a humanism with various dimensions. It´s one in which market is not fought against but lived in as a space open to the principles of reciprocity and solidarity, and therefore capable of buildling up the city. An economic science and praxi that make room for the principle of gift within (and not beside) economic theory.

Microfinanza

Written by Antonio Andreoni, Vittorio Pelligra Tuesday, 21 July 2009 11:55

Andreoni, Antonio and Pelligra Vittorio

Microfinanza (Microfinance)
To give credit to relationships

Il Mulino Saggi, Bologna, 2009

With preface by Stefano Zamagni (in Italian)

Microfinance represents more of a cultural revolution than an economic one, and more anthropological than political. A supportive financial system for social and economic development is set at the base and acts on assumptions radically different in respect to the traditional ones, and insists on a process of involvement that starts from the bottom but is two-directional. Only in reciprocity, in fact, can a supportive relationship promote the blossoming of potential without humiliating the dignity of the beneficiary.

The Economy of Communion

Written by Bruni, Luigino Thursday, 25 June 2009 21:42

Bruni, Luigino

The Economy of Communion
Toward a Multi-Dimensional Economic Culture
New City Press, Hyde Park, New York, 2002

“When I proposed the Economy of Communion, I certainly did not have a theory in mind. Nonetheless, I can see that it draws the attention of economists, sociologists, philosophers and scholars from other disciplines”
Chiara Lubich

Over the years the Economy of Communion has come a long way. Within a year of its beginning in 1991 a dozen pioneering businesses already existed. Now the Economy of Communion involves over seven hundred businesses throughout the world.

Using the language of economics, the articles in this volume convey the principles at the root of the Economy of Communion and explain its unique characteristics within the context of current and historical economic thought and practice at both the micro and macro levels.
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L´Impresa civile

Written by Antonella Ferrucci Thursday, 04 June 2009 16:54

Bruni, Luigino

L'Impresa civile (The Civil Enterprise)
An Italian path towards the market economy

Egea, Milano 2009

In this age of economic and financial crisis many things need to be rethought if we want to imagine and build a market economy and a model of sustainable development. Among these "things" is, undoubtfully, the business enterprise. It´s not enough that it produces quality, income, occupations - not even that it pays the right taxes. It´s always more evident that the business institution is called to "something more" which can truly render it a friend to the city in such a way that it would be considered as a builder-element of the civil fabric.

Dizionario di Economia Civile

Written by Antonella Ferrucci Wednesday, 07 January 2009 20:15

There is no translation available

Bruni, Luigino e Zamagni, Stefano (edd.)

Dizionario di Economia Civile

Città Nuova, Roma, 2009

E’ imminente l’uscita del "Dizionario di Economia Civile": oltre 100 voci che coprono i grandi temi dell'economia di oggi intesa come civiltà.
Il comitato editoriale e' composto da Maria Gabriella  Baldarelli, Leonardo Becchetti, Vittorio Pelligra, Pierluigi Porta e Luca. Zarri.
Gli autori, tra gli altri: Vera Araujo, Antonio Maria Baggio, Piero Coda, Benedetto Gui, Ignazio Musu, Sergio Rondinara, Lorenzo Sacconi, Alessandra Smerilli,Francesco Viola, Vera Zamagni e i principali autori della teoria sociale ed economica contemporanea.

Oltre l'homo oeconomicus

Written by Leonardo Becchetti Tuesday, 30 December 2008 13:48

Becchetti, Leonardo
Oltre (beyond) l'homo oeconomicus
happiness, responsibility, economy of relationships   

Città Nuova, Rome, 2008
 
"money doesn't make one's happiness": this popular saying is nowadays confirmed by surveys about happiness which underscore the paramount importance of "relational goods". Nevertheless, social  sciences  keep on proposing narrowing visions of human individuals (from the homo oeconomicus to the homo sociologicus etc.). It's therefore necessary to bring about a new foundation of the individual which may take into account all his dimensions.

Imprese Sociali: Scelte Individuali e Interessi comuni

Written by Pelligra, Vittorio Thursday, 09 October 2008 22:53

There is no translation available

Pelligra, Vittorio (ed.)

Imprese Sociali

Scelte Individuali e Interessi comuni

 

Bruno Mondadori, Milano, 2008 

Bruno Mondadori Editore

L’impresa sociale è un’impresa “speciale”, che rappresenta per molti una contraddizione in termini: un’impresa privata che persegue finalità pubbliche.

Benedetta economia

Written by Smerilli, Alessandra - Bruni, Luigino Thursday, 02 October 2008 18:48

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Smerilli, Alessandra  Bruni, Luigino

Benedetta economia

Benedetto di Norcia e Francesco d'Assisi nella storia economica europea

Città Nuova, Roma, 2008

L'economia e i carismi; il mondo disincantato della società di mercato fatto di profitto, ricerca del tornaconto e di denaro, e la dimensione ricca di spiritualità, di gratuità e ideali dei carismi. Sembrano a prima vista due realtà distanti. Ma non è così. È quanto dimostrano gli Autori del volume.

Capabilities & Happiness

Written by Bruni, Luigino Tuesday, 30 September 2008 13:30

Edited by Luigino Bruni, Flavio Comim & Maurizio Pugno

Capabilities & Happiness

Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2008

Essays collection about Happiness and Capability with a contribution of Nobel Prize Amartya Sen

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Économie de communion

Written by annette Thursday, 29 May 2008 10:13

There is no translation available

Mouvement des Focolari
Économie de communion
Des entreprises osent le partage
Editions Nouvelle Cité, 2008

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El precio de la gratuidad

Written by Bruni, Luigino Monday, 28 April 2008 13:00

There is no translation available

Bruni, Luigino
El precio de la gratuidad
Editorial Ciudad Nueva, aprile 2008

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Reciprocity, altruism and civil society

Written by Bruni, Luigino Tuesday, 01 January 2008 13:00

There is no translation available

Bruni, Luigino
Reciprocity, Altruism and Civil Society
In prais of heterogeneity

Routledge, London, 2008

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L'utopie en marche

Written by Dutru, Isaline Bourgenot Tuesday, 02 January 2007 10:13

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Isaline Bourgenot Dutru

L'utopie en marche
François Neveux
entrepreneur et inventeur
économiquement incorrect
Editions Nouvelle Cité, 2007

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Economia de Comunhão. A construção...

Written by LEITE, Kelen Christina Monday, 01 January 2007 13:00

There is no translation available

LEITE, Kelen Christina
Economia de Comunhão.
A construção da reciprocidade nas relações entre capital, trabalho e estado
Annablume Editora; FAPESP: São Paulo, 2007

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L'economia del bene comune

Written by Zamagni, Stefano Monday, 01 January 2007 13:00

There is no translation available

Zamagni, Stefano

L'economia del bene comune

Città Nuova, Roma 2007

La ferita dell'altro

Written by Bruni, Luigino Monday, 01 January 2007 13:00

There is no translation available
Bruni, Luigino

La ferita dell'altro

Economia e relazioni umane

Il Margine, Trento 2007
Il mercato può diventare luogo di vero incontro con l'altro purché si apra alla gratuità, purché non fugga dalla ferita dell'altro.