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Reciprocity, Altruism and the Civil Society
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 335

Reciprocity, Altruism and the Civil Society

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2008-05-13
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  • Publisher: Routledge

The main emphasis of this new book from Luigino Bruni is a praise of heterogeneity, arguing that society works when different people are able to cooperate in many different ways. The author engages in a novel approach to reciprocity looking at its different forms in society, from cautious or contractual interactions, to the reciprocity of friendshi

The Wound and the Blessing
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 149

The Wound and the Blessing

Bruni offers an authoritative and innovative look at the cultural and anthropological premises underlying contemporary market economies and their promises. He points out the need for balancing the increasing tendency toward isolation with the human need for relationships. Bruni proposes gratuitousness -- free and open reciprocity, quite different from altruism -- as a means of maximizing the benefits of the market without losing the joy that comes from putting relationships with others first.

Civil Economy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 163

Civil Economy

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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A Lexicon of Social Well-Being
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 179

A Lexicon of Social Well-Being

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2015-04-17
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  • Publisher: Springer

We must quickly learn how to live well in the world as it is today, including the realm of work. We need to learn a new vocabulary of economics and markets that is more suitable to understand the present world and that is likely to offer us the tools to act, and perhaps improve it as well.

Civil Economy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 288

Civil Economy

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2007
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  • Publisher: Peter Lang

This volume has a double purpose. First of all, it follows an Italian tradition of thought that began in the 15th and 16th centuries as Civic Humanism and continued up until the golden period of Italian Enlightenment as represented by the Schools of Milan and Naples. Its main contribution to the history of economic thought is its conception of the market as a place centered on the principle of reciprocity and civil virtues. This book explains why the civil approach to economics disappeared from cultural debates, scientific enquiries and the public arena at the end of the 18th century, only to surface again in more recent times. Secondly, the book draws attention to a new reading of the whole...

The Genesis and Ethos of the Market
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 236

The Genesis and Ethos of the Market

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012-08-21
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  • Publisher: Springer

A discussion of the anthropological roots of the market, tracing its development using the history of ideas and cultures as well as simple game theory. In his analysis of market ethics Bruni calls for a reconsideration of some of the central tenets of modern political economy, and the need for a new spirit of capitalism.

The Charismatic Principle in Social Life
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 208

The Charismatic Principle in Social Life

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012-12-20
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Max Weber laid the foundations for the meaning of ‘charisma’ in modern secular usage. This new volume argues for the importance of the ‘charismatic principle’ in history, economics and society. This volume brings together a number of contributors at the cross section between economics, theology, sociology and politics in order to set a research agenda for the following issues: What does it means to have a ‘charism’? How does it work in society? How might one distinguish a ‘charism’ from a talent? Are ‘charism’s given only to "special" people, or are they also present in ordinary people? Is a ‘charism’ necessarily associated with religion, or, is it, as we submit, poss...

Handbook on the Economics of Happiness
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 635

Handbook on the Economics of Happiness

This book is a welcome consolidation and extension of the recent expanding debates on happiness and economics. Happiness and economics, as a new field for research, is now of pivotal interest particularly to welfare economists and psychologists.

Civil Happiness
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 187

Civil Happiness

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2006-04-18
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  • Publisher: Routledge

This impressive volume presents an historical review of the evolution of economic thought. Bruni offers a significant contribution for a new season of studies on happiness and sociality in economics.

The Genesis and Ethos of the Market
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 221

The Genesis and Ethos of the Market

A discussion of the anthropological roots of the market, tracing its development using the history of ideas and cultures as well as simple game theory. In his analysis of market ethics Bruni calls for a reconsideration of some of the central tenets of modern political economy, and the need for a new spirit of capitalism.