The Economy of Communion: Toward a Multi-Dimensional Economic Culture: Toward a Multi-dimensional Economic Structure

ISBN 10: 156548178X / ISBN 13: 9781565481787

Published by New City Press, 2002

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Economy of Communion: Toward a Multi-Dimensional Economic Culture: Toward a Multi-dimensional Economic Structure
• Publisher: New City Press
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 156548178X
• ISBN 13: 9781565481787
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: good

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Synopsis

The eight articles convey the principles at the root of the Economy of Communion and explain its unique characteristics.

Pope Benedict XVIs new encyclical letter, Caritas in Veritate, in paragraph 46 speaks of an economy of communion. As John Allen remarked in a July 7, 2009 interview with Mundell & Associates, an Indiana-based Economy of Communion business, The Economy of communion was cited by Benedict XVI as a promising form of intermediate activity between for-profit business and classic non-profit institutions, rupturing what the pope called an exclusively binary model of market-plus-state which is corrosive of society.

"When I proposed the Economy of Communion, I certainly did not have a theory in mind. Nonetheless, I can see that it draws the attention of economists, sociologists, philosophers and scholars from other disciplines" (Chiara Lubich). Over the years the Economy of Communion has come a long way. Within a year of its beginning in 1991 a dozen pioneering businesses already existed. Now the Economy of Communion involves over seven hundred businesses throughout the world. Using the language of economics, the articles in this volume convey the principles at the root of the Economy of Communion and explain its unique characteristics within the context of current and historical economic thought and practice at both the micro and macro levels.

About the Author

Luigino Bruni, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Political Economics, Università di Milano-Bicocca and Resident Faculty at Istituto Universitario Sophia in Loppiano, Italy. He is co-editor of the International Review of Economics (IREC, Springer) and has written numerous books and articles, including the award-winning Civil Happiness: Economics and Human Flourishing in Historical Perspective and The Economy of Communion (ed.).