Civil Economy

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

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Corporate crises: saying “we” helps to start over

Corporate crises: saying “we” helps to start over

Rules to overcome the difficulties by Luigino Bruni published in Avvenire on 15/04/2015 So many people talk about economic recovery and GDP nowadays, as if GDP alone was capable of telling good tidings to us. The reality of our economy, however, says that businesses are suffering and will continue t...
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The Uncivil Economy of Gamble

The Uncivil Economy of Gamble

We should not descend to compromise when the poor's skin is at stake.  We should not help them with money wrought out of their weakness. by Luigino Bruni published in Città Nuova n.21 on 10/11/2014 I was in London, pursuing economic studies when in the morning of 8th May 1998 Chiara Lubich...
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Care: the Secret to Success

Care: the Secret to Success

An Interview with Canadian Political Scientist Jennifer Nedelsky by Luigino Bruni published in Avvenire on 4/10/2014 Canadian political scientist Jennifer Nedelsky, professor at the University of Toronto, is one of the most innovative voices in the debate on the issues of care, rights and socia...
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On Capitalism During the Flight

On Capitalism During the Flight

Returning home, dreaming of communion also for that good half of the world that will never set foot in an airplane by Luigino Bruni published in Città Nuova n.17/2014 on 10/09/2014 Returning from Paris, from a summer school on the Economy of Communion, flying up in the sky above Europe I am thi...
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My Meeting with Pope Francis

An Interview with Luigino Bruni by Antonella Ferrucci Luigino Bruni was one of the protagonists of the conference entitled "The Global Common Good: Towards a more inclusive economy” that brought together the highest authorities of global economy in the Vatican on 11th and 12th July. This was the fir...
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We Need a Cure

We Need a Cure

Commentaries - Old Vices Increased by the Crisis by Luigino Bruni published inAvvenire on 10/07/2014 “Parallel with the intensification of the economic crisis, a greater spread of the phenomenon of usury was observed, evidenced by reports of the doubling of suspicious transactions in 2013 over the p...
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"Black" GDP, Far from the Common Good

"Black" GDP, Far from the Common Good

Commentaries - The Choice that Denies the Goal of Economy by Luigino Bruni published in Avvenire on 29/05/2014 We always knew that the Gross Domestic Product does not measure much and that many of the things that it measures it measures badly - and we often and willingly say this on these pages...
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Work, that is, Care

Work, that is, Care

Commentaries - Beyond Inequality and Poverty by Luigino Bruni published in Avvenire on 01/05/2014 If we want to continue to write work as the first word of our social contract, today we have put some other words before it. Among these there is the care that goes along with work. To re-invent wo...