Viviana Rizzo

biografia non convenzionale di Luigi Delfi, imprenditore di condivisione

Edizioni NUR, Milano, 2011

Recensione di Giampietro Parolin

Alcune delle moto più ambite dai bikers di tutto il mondo montano i fanali di ECIE, azienda lombarda di EDC. A vent’anni dalla sua fondazione l’imprenditore che l’ha creata Luigi Delfi si racconta in un libro di fresca stampa, curato dalla penna di Viviana Rizzo, con contributi fra gli altri di Benedetto Gui e Luigino Bruni.

L’evento del  1991, il lancio del progetto EdC è il perno di questo racconto. Luigi ci racconta come è arrivato a quell’appuntamento con la storia e da lì come si è sviluppata la sua vita di imprenditore,ma anche  di marito, di padre, di tutte quelle dimensioni di vita che esprimono in pieno l’umanità più autentica.

Luigino Bruni, Alessandra Smerilli

Un’introduzione alla teoria economica delle Organizzazioni a Movente Ideale

Vita e Pensiero, Milano, 2011

L’economia, e con essa la società, sta attraversando una fase di cambiamento epocale. Le imprese e i mercati attuali si allontanano sempre più dal modello con il quale li abbiamo immaginati, vissuti e descritti solo fino a pochi decenni fa.
In particolare, ai fini del successo delle imprese, diminuisce il peso relativo dei capitali tecnologici e finanziari e aumenta quello delle persone, del capitale sociale, civile e motivazionale e quello dei beni relazionali.
Vita e Pensiero

Gold, Lorna

New Financial Horizons:
The emergence of an economic communion
New City Press, 2010

Celebrating the 20th Anniversary of the Economy of Communion, Gold examines the origins and substance of a promising alternative to the current globalized economy.The Economy of Communion, which started within the Focolare Movement in 1991, involves a worldwide network of solidarity among some 800 firms that together constitute a vibrant business community based upon the values of sharing, caring and justice. Drawing on the experiences of an international sample of business and community leaders, particularly from the U.S. and Brazil, Lorna Gold explains the historical and philosophical origins of this fascinating yet little known global community.“The Economy of Communion was cited by Benedict XVI [in Caritas in Veritate] as a promising form of intermediate activity between for-profit business and classic non-profit institutions,” wrote journalist John L. Allen Jr.

Lorna Gold currently works as Policy and Advocacy Manager with the Irish Catholic Agency for International Development, Trócaire. She writes extensively on global economic and social development, with a particular focus on the contribution of Christian social thought in addressing the challenges of ethical globalization.

— written by Christine Kelly

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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.

Città Nuova Publisher

Luigino Bruni

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.

DUTRU, Isaline Bourgenot
François Neveux: empresário economicamente incorreto
Editora Cidade Nova, Vargem Grande Paulista, 2009

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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

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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.

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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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.

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.