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.
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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
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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
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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
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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...
- Luigino Bruni
- Hits: 1512
That infinite controversy that pits what is honest and what is useful against one another
The Market and the Temple/8 - Analysis - A story where the Medici and other magnificent Florentines, St. Antonino, the common good and the Magi are the protagonists.
By Luigino Bruni
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The Market and the Temple/7 - Analysis. The different medieval conceptions, the debate that arose and the question that is arising today (not only) in Europe.
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- Luigino Bruni
- Hits: 1518
And somewhere between Judas and Mary Magdalene the European economy was born
- And free Franciscan poverty gave money its real value
- Time is a common good, even if we have forgotten it
- And breath became a Hallelujah
- There is also a good kind of profit and it is never called usury
- Midwives of a different kind of joy
- Not to love the world but to take care of humanity
- This is why banks need a true secular holiness
- With God's very own name
- Greater than our heart
- And the song gave way to life again
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