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The good fruits of great evils
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The good fruits of great evils

Editorials - Today's trials and victims, yesterday's history by Luigino Bruni published in Avvenire on 31/12/2020 The collective dimension of fear and death: this is the legacy that 2020 leaves us. We had already forgotten the great collective fears; we had relegated death to the intimacy of the ...
The elegance of that one and only dress
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The elegance of that one and only dress

We will not be able to create a new development model if we don’t learn to appreciate the wealth and value of the small things in life By Luigino Bruni Published in Messaggero di Sant'Antonio 16/01/2020 Although our culture, and perhaps every culture, associates its positive values ​​with some form ...
The cry from the Earth and the poor asks for dreams and new prophecies
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The cry from the Earth and the poor asks for dreams and new prophecies

Editorials - The humanism of the "three F's" of young people and the challenge for the coming year of combining integral ecology and economics By Luigino Bruni Published in Avvenire 31/12/2019 50 years after '68 and the various world ideologies, young people are once again the first element of chang...
The grammar of star-gifts
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The grammar of star-gifts

The Epiphany of Jesus – Those who know how to give do not take up space, but free it. They do not take up time from reciprocity and only bring "great joy" with them. By Luigino Bruni Published in Avvenire 05/01/2020 The feast of the Epiphany of Jesus tells us many things, all of great importance. It...
The poor and the theorems of «guilt»
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The poor and the theorems of «guilt»

Editorial – At the root of the attack against the solidarity networks by Luigino Bruni published in Avvenire on 30/04/2019 One the greatest moral novelties of Christian and European humanism is having freed the poor of the guilt of their poverty. Ancient times had left us with an idea as legacy, the...
And now we need a miracle
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And now we need a miracle

Editorial – The fire of Notre-Dame: the soul is a serious matter by Luigino Bruni Published in Avvenire on 18/04/2019 Roots do not represent the past, but the present and the future of plants. They remain hidden, deep rooted and invisible, but nonetheless fundamental. Some trees can continue living ...
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Let's save the Black Friday natives

Commentaries - The religion of consumption and its sacrificial rites by Luigino Bruni published in Avvenire on 23/11/2018 If anyone still has any doubt that our capitalism has become something very similar to a religion, they just have to take a good look around on the web and the big shopping malls...
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How the female gaze can change the economy

Why we should start again from common goods and relational goods. From economist Luigino Bruni’s talk he gave on the second day of the World Meeting of Families in Dublin. by Luigino Bruni published in Avvenire on 23/08/2018 Economy is a word of ancient Greek origins that refers directly to the hous...
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A Nobel for the economics that gathers ashes

Nobel Prize for "contract theory", simple and disastrous by Luigino Bruni published in Avvenire on 11/10/2016 The culture of contracts is the big winner of our time of too many poor on the losers' side. It grew from the ashes of the culture of pacts, which had been the backbone of the family, civil ...
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Anorexia of Compassion. A New Concern for Feelings

Commentaries – Facing all the pain pervading our days by Luigino Bruni published in Avvenire on 29/07/2016 Our capacity to suffer because of the suffering of others and to rejoice for their joy has gone through a very rapid decline in a few decades. The consumer and comfort-focused society confuses ...
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Human Wealth

Commentaries - Work, its non-places and value by Luigino Bruni published in Avvenire on 01/05/2016 A great utopia of our capitalism is the construction of a society where there is no more need for human labour. There has always been a spirit of the economy that dreamed of "perfect" enterprises and m...
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Through Risen Eyes

Commentaries – How wounds and crises become blessings by Luigino Bruni published in Avvenire on 27/03/2016 Resurrection is a great word on earth. Life reborn from death is the first law of nature, that of plants and flowers that fill the world with colour and beauty, because they tell us that life i...
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Stop arming the war

Commentaries - the Evil that We, Too, Are Feeding by Luigino Bruni published in Avvenire on 17/11/2015 Wars have always been fought by many poor, young and innocent people who were sent to die by a few rich, powerful and guilty ones, who did not die in the wars that they themselves wanted and that ...
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We Are Not Cyclopes

Commentaries - Hospitality is the Foundation of our Civilisation by Luigino Bruni published in Avvenire on 19/08/2015 The duty of hospitality is the main wall of western civilization, and the ABC of good of humanity. In the ancient Greek world a stranger was the bearer of a divine presence. There ar...