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Wealth without children or a future
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Wealth without children or a future

Roots of the future/2 - Consumerism also betrays the meridian civilization of goods By Luigino Bruni Published in Avvenire  10/09/2022 Giovanni Verga's short story “Property” (“La roba”) offers us insights into the economic system of our time and its sad ending, if we are not able to reverse its ... 
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Beyond aesthetic capitalism
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Beyond aesthetic capitalism

Roots of the future/1 - Kierkegaard's "Aut Aut" and other great ideas for this time of crisis By Luigino Bruni Published in Avvenire  03/09/2022 As merchants, companies look for impressionable consumers, as producers they look for loyal workers. That is, the same people. The conflict is incipient... 
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The big bluff
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The big bluff

For forty years we have been drunk on privatisation, we have dismantled public and common goods and entrusted them to the capitalist market. But the private sector is not the Promised Land... By Luigino Bruni published in Il Messaggero di Sant'Antonio on 01/07/2022 The pandemic, the climate crisi... 
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Of limitations and oppositions
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Of limitations and oppositions

We need to be aware, and keep our conscience alert, that every time we allow a ‘no’ to enter our lives, that ‘no’ multiplies, becomes a mountain, and reduces the horizon of freedom for us and for everyone. by Luigino Bruni published in Il Messaggero di Sant'Antonio on 23/09/2021 In the 1960s, Tho... 
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The logic of the ravine
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The logic of the ravine

Ecology must be inserted within the economy, in that integral ecology-economy which is the great message of the encyclical «Laudato si'». by Luigino Bruni published in Messaggero di Sant'Antonio on11/08/2021 The economic theme of the moment is ecological transition. But the signals are ambiguous.... 
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A.A.A. New Council Wanted
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A.A.A. New Council Wanted

At a time when capitalism is showing its insufficiency to save the planet and the poor, the pontificate of Francis is proposing important challenges to economic and financial life. by Luigino Bruni published in Il Messaggero di Sant'Antonio on 24/06/2021 On 25 January 1959, three months after his... 
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The voice from within and the Focolare Movement
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The voice from within and the Focolare Movement

Chiara Lubich, as recalled by the economist who worked with her by Luigino Bruni published in Osservatore Romano.va 03/07/2021 Whenever we want to talk about a woman who has had a prophetic role in the Church, the paradigm of reference is here in the Bible. We often encounter women in the Bible when... 
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Abel and the circular economy
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Abel and the circular economy

What is still missing from a circular economy in order for it to be "civil" and even of "communion"? by Luigino Bruni published in Il messaggero di Sant'Antonio on 10/05/2021 «Circular  Economy» seems to be the watchword of the new green and sustainable economy. We certainly cannot deny that circ...