Böcker av Luigino Bruni

Drawing on debates about the religious nature and origins of contemporary European capitalism, this book argues for a distinction between a Northern/Protestant and a Southern/Catholic spirit of capitalism. This book will be of interest to readers in history of economic thought, history of capitalism, economic ethics and religious history.

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.

Offers a praise of heterogeneity, arguing that society works when different people are able to cooperate in many different ways. This book looks at the reasons why among the many forms of reciprocity present in the civil life economics has chosen to deal just with the simplest ones.