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The EoC Today: Challenges and Opportunities

By now, the Economy of Communion is nearing its twentieth anniversary. A “place of resistence”. By Luigino Bruni Published on Citta Nuova n.21/2010 on 10/11/2010 At the end of May, 2011, everyone in the EoC will meet again in Sao Paulo to rediscover the roots of this experience and outline new prosp...
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I produce if I am a person

One of the great pillars of the market economy, in particular the labor market, is the idea that the company does not buy people but working hours. by Luigino Bruni published on Città Nuova n.10/2011 on 25/05/2011 One of the great pillars of the market economy, in particular the labor mar...
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Fiscal Purgatory

Taxes and Justice By Luigino Bruni Published on Cittanuova.it on 18/03/2010 Once again, we speak again about fiscal reform and the fight against tax evasion, a disease not only of the fiscal system but of all civil life as it undermines the roots of the "social pact" between citizens. Today, in a mo...
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Gratuitousness, a communitary process

The entrepreneur from Brescia who paid school taxes for children who could not has been both praised and harshly criticized. What is the value of gratuitousness within a community? Three questions to economist Luigino Bruni.  By Chiara Andreola Publishing on cittanuova.it on 16/04/2010 At first...
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Peacebuilders for the EoC

Beyond the market - A surprising encounter with an association that has made one of Chiara Lubich's dreams, the Economy of Communion its own by Luigino Bruni published in Città Nuova, August 2018 Florence, 28 June, San Lorenzo Church. In the rooms below the church, the Associazione Costruttori di pa...
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Economy and Sharing

Columns - Beyond the market by Luigino Bruni published in pdf Città Nuova n.12/2016 (104 KB) November 2016 issue It is not easy to understand what is really happening in the growing phenomenon of the so-called sharing economy. Also because some very different experiences, sometimes to...
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The subsidiarity of emotions

Columns - Beyond the market by Luigino Bruni published in pdf Città Nuova n.11/2016 (116 KB) on novembre 2016 In large enterprises of our day the attention paid to the management of emotions is growing quickly. Economic organizations are beginning to feel instinctively that we are in...
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“After the wind came an earthquake, but the Lord was not in the earthquake.”

by Luigino Bruni published in: Città Nuova on 24/08/2016 That clock tower on Amatrice church indicating 3.36 is a powerful image for what happened this night. That minute was the last minute for many victims, it will be a minute forever remembered because it is written in the flesh and hearts o...
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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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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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Encyclicals' impact on the economy

By Luigino Bruni Published in Città Nuova n. 5/2013 on March 10, 2013 In our hedonistic, consumeristic, and finance centric culture, love may be the most used and worn out word. However, Benedict XVI made it the core of his social doctrine. Deus Caritas est and Caritas in Veritate, are, respectively...
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Economic crisis and eyes of Resurrection

In the economic system that we have produced this last century, there is something that is clearly dying, but there is also something new emerging on the horizon. by Luigino Bruni published in Città Nuova n.7/2012 from 10/4/2012 The economy has extreme need of resurrection. Every resurrection i...
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Young People Should Always be heard

What do they really want: the unemployed protesters in England, the students who protest in Chile, the young protagonists of the "spring" Middle East? It is worth trying to understand what lies beneath these protests. by Luigino Bruni published in cittànuova.it on 12/08/2011 Many of us wer...
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Remedy for injustice

Until a few decades ago the traditional structure of Western society was based on a rule of reciprocity: as adults they gave assistance to our parents, and once they themselves became older they would receive care from their children. by Luigino Bruni published in Citta Nuova N.15  on ...