Civil Economy

essays, research and articles ranging from economy to the history of ideas

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Let's Train Our Eyes

Let's Train Our Eyes

End of year: thank-you's and stories to tell by Luigino Bruni  published in Avvenire on December 31, 2013    The Greeks used two words to indicate what we now call time: chronos and kairos. For the chronos-time New Year's Eve is a day like any other. For the kairos-time, however, the hours and y...
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Temperance (Beyond the Famine)

Temperance (Beyond the Famine)

Commentary - The virtues to be rediscovered and re-lived by Luigino Bruni  published in Avvenire on August 11, 2013    Temperance is a word that is fading out from our civil vocabulary. It disappeared long ago from the economic vocabulary in order to leave space for its opposite. We ended up usi...
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Agape (The Great Dawn)

Agape (The Great Dawn)

Commentary - The virtues to be rediscovered and lived/7 by Luigino Bruni  Published in Avvenire on September 22, 2013  Reciprocity is the golden rule of human sociality. Only the word reciprocity can explain the basic structure of society, even if that society is characterized by indignation, reven...
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Faith (The Pierced Roof)

Faith (The Pierced Roof)

Commentary - The virtues to be rediscovered and lived/6 by Luigino Bruni  Published in Avvenire on September 15, 2013  There are some words that have the ability to express something in its entirety. Words like justice, beauty andtruth possess a power and completeness that prevents us from surround...
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Hope (The Treasure Room)

Hope (The Treasure Room)

Commentary - The virtues to be rediscovered and lived/5 by Luigino Bruni  Published in Avvenire on September 8, 2013  Our civilization faces a scarcity of an important resource, hope. Hope is certainly a virtue, but behind this great word there are many things hiding, some greater and some lesser t...
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Fortitude (beyond the crisis)

Fortitude (beyond the crisis)

Commentary - The virtues to be rediscovered and lived/4 by Luigino Bruni  Published in Avvenire on September 1, 2013  If there is a virtue that is especially valuable in times of crisis, then it must be fortitude. It is the capacity to go on with life and persist despite long-lasting hardships. It ...
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A Proper Outlook on Work

A Proper Outlook on Work

Commentary - The Golden Rule of «Reciprocity» Written by Luigino Bruni Posted in Avvenire  on July 21, 2013  We should take advantage of these difficult times to think about the nature of that fundamental human activity we call work. For this purpose, let us suppose that som...
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Beyond the Ideology of Incentives

Beyond the Ideology of Incentives

Commentary - Virtues are not a luxury to invest in the world of economy by Luigino Bruni  Published in Avvenire on August 4, 2013 One of the paradoxes at the heart of our economic and social system is the peaceful coexistence between the radical rejection of masters and controls in the political sp...