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: Luigino Bruni; 07 February 2021; Hits: 1040

When fragility became an economic and civil virtue

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...

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: Luigino Bruni; 31 January 2021; Hits: 1280

Good trading will always be a tactile and visual art form

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...

: Luigino Bruni; 24 January 2021; Hits: 1508

Where poverty is not a matter of shame and wealth is all about sharing

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...

: Luigino Bruni; 17 January 2021; Hits: 1372

The «art of trading» is all about love for the people of the world

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...

: Luigino Bruni; 09 January 2021; Hits: 1363

Forgiveness and second chance accounting in meridian capitalism

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; 03 January 2021; Hits: 1299

That infinite controversy that pits what is honest and what is useful against one another

The Market and the Temple/9 - Analysis - The information held by those who deal in trading is the basis of a decisive and ambiguous ability to anticipate the future By Luigino Bruni Published in...

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: Luigino Bruni; 26 December 2020; Hits: 1245

When and why merchants were able to occupy the temple

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 Published...

: Luigino Bruni; 20 December 2020; Hits: 1264

When public debt was a matter of giving

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. By Luigino Bruni Published...

: Luigino Bruni; 13 December 2020; Hits: 1235

And somewhere between Judas and Mary Magdalene the European economy was born

The Market and the Temple/6 - Analysis. The devaluation of labour and the market is the result of archaic and Greco-Roman cultures and erroneous "theological" ideas. By Luigino Bruni Published...

: Luigino Bruni; 06 December 2020; Hits: 1462

And free Franciscan poverty gave money its real value

The Market and the Temple/5 - Since the friars did not actually make use of money, they became the masters of another economy instead, because we have the coins of Judas but we also have those of...