The Market and the Temple

: Luigino Bruni; 09 January 2021; Hits: 1578

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: 1479

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: 1418

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: 1522

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: 1478

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: 1755

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...

: Luigino Bruni; 29 November 2020; Hits: 1481

Time is a common good, even if we have forgotten it

The Market and the Temple/4 - Analysis - In biblical humanism there is the «Sabbath» and yet all days belong to God, then «mixed time» came and today... By Luigino Bruni Published...

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: Luigino Bruni; 21 November 2020; Hits: 1599

There is also a good kind of profit and it is never called usury

The Market and the Temple/3 - analysis. The great theological debate on the nature of interests and a crucial discernment made by the Franciscans By Luigino Bruni Published in Avvenire ...

: Luigino Bruni; 15 November 2020; Hits: 1457

Not to love the world but to take care of humanity

The Market and the temple/2 - Monti di Pietà and Monti Frumentari speak of an original plural finance and the equity action of the Church. By Luigino Bruni Published in Avvenire 15/11/2020 "It is...

: Luigino Bruni; 08 November 2020; Hits: 1516

This is why banks need a true secular holiness

The Market and the temple/1 - As in other epochal phases in the past, the pandemic makes it clear that the economy should not be demonized, but converted By Luigino Bruni Published...

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