The market and the temple/19 - The Counter-Reformation was also a decisive time for the economic and social culture of Italy and Southern Europe.
By Luigino Bruni
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From this category you can access to the thematic series of editorials by Luigino Bruni in Avvenire:
The Vocabulary of Good Social Life
The Great Transition
Regenerations
The Voices of the Days
The market and the temple/18 - Monastic lockup was about "shutting in" women and "shutting out" male interference.
By Luigino Bruni
Published in Avvenire 07/03/2021
The social and...
The temple and the market/17 - The negative stigma placed on unwed women gradually led to the birth of new Monti, entities of credit and charity.
By Luigino Bruni
Published in Avvenire ...
The market and the temple/16 - The great Duns Scotus interpreted the version of the "golden rule" of the Gospels as a rule of economic sociality.
By Luigino Bruni
Published 21/02/2021 in...
The Market and the Temple/15 - Theological prohibitions have been able to generate means of freedom for merchants and intellectuals such as insurance companies and universities.
by Luigino...
The Market and the Temple/14 - Literature is a metaphor for the spirit of the past while also helping us to understand the mercantile ethics of the Middle Ages
by Luigino Bruni
Published...
The Market and the Temple/13 - The merchant writers hand down pages of life and economic stories in the name of competence, sobriety, beauty and faith to us.
By Luigino Bruni
Published...
The Market and the Temple/12 - The Latin and pre-capitalist humanism of medieval cities and merchants and the critique of the spirit of capitalism.
By Luigino Bruni
Published...
The Market and the Temple/11 - The weaving of relationships that Tuscan Francesco Datini made great is exemplary. Pessimism, cynicism, envy and distrust are the great capital sins of any...
The Market and the Temple/10 - In the first multinational companies that arose in the Christian cities of the fourteenth century, the poor were the representatives of God and took part in the...
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- When public debt was a matter of giving
- And somewhere between Judas and Mary Magdalene the European economy was born
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- Time is a common good, even if we have forgotten it
- There is also a good kind of profit and it is never called usury
- Not to love the world but to take care of humanity
- This is why banks need a true secular holiness
- The Sabbath is reborn while in exile
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