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Catholic social economy : past evolution and present challenges
No full textIntroducción: This article provides a historical interpretation of Catholic social economy (also called Social Catholicism) in an attempt to give a Christian form to capitalism. The aim of this writing is to reflect on the evolution of Catholic economic thought and to offer some foreseeable development in light of the experience that characterized the early stages of this movement. By Catholic social economy, the author does not mean the social doctrine of the church, but the whole set of scientific work of Catholic scholars, with their different orientations and acceptance by the official documents of the holy soil. Roman Catholicism is the only religion that has produced wide and continuous scientific research about political economy. This should not be considered an anomaly, because the positivistic attitude of modern economics tends to crowd out the classic unitary view of man and of a good life that characterizes Catholic anthropology. As a consequence, it can be considered an attempt to address scientific research in a way compatible to the Catholic view of the “social nature of man”, and not an attempt to resist or to contrast the role of science. The fundamental concepts of this stream of research have been the idea of natural law intended as a moral order (vs. the equilibrium of conflicting strategies), the social nature of man (vs. individualism and individual autonomy) and the role that charity and justice assume for individual behaviour inspired by the common good (vs. freedom and laissez faire)..
Recensione a 'Social Costs and Public Action in Modern Capitalism' edited by Elsner W, P. Frigato and P. Ramazzotti, London, Routledge
No full textThe ‘Practical Reason’ of Reformers: Proudhon vs.Institutionalism
No full textBesides the common faith in the effect of collective action to change economic institutions and, above all, the distribution of income, the most remarkable similarity between Proudhon’s theory and old institutionalism resides in their epistemology. In both cases, we find applications of some sort of classical “practical reason” approach to social order. The former tends to be centered on the idea of justice, the latter on democracy. The major difference is that law tends to be instrumental for institutionalists, while for Proudhon, the law is based on morals and is an expression of justice. Thus, institutionalism accepts public law as a mechanism of allocation and sees the state as an important factor in the enforcement of rights. On the contrary, Proudhon opposed any form of political control and based his “revolution” on social law
The corporative third way in social catholicism (1830-1918)
No full textThe idea of a third way was theorised in nineteenth-century Catholic socio-economic thought where vocational orders were asked to play a fundamental role in the regulation of economic processes. We will describe the development of Social Catholicism, looking at Neo-Thomistic philosophy which, towards the middle of the nineteenth century, began to frame an early attempt to develop some economic theories compatible with Catholic ethics. We will highlight the different positions of Catholic economists, the theoretical difficulties that their theory encountered, due to the different epistemology adopted, and the influences that German Kathedersozialismus had on the further development of the idea of a corporative ‘third way’
Catholic perspectives on poverty and misery: from ninetheenth century French Catholic social economists to the contribution of moralists
No full textThe first generation of Catholic social economists, which also included some moral philosophers, achieved a coherent view of economic problems according to natural law and to the gospel of the Catholic Church. They studied the causes of the increasingly unequal distribution of income in the processes of industrialisation and identified the need for regulating institutions to limit the misery of the working class. They considered charity and personal relationships as the main remedy to the problem of misery, but they became progressively open to state intervention to assure an organic regulation of the bodies responsible for organising redistribution
Le concept de régulation dans l'étude des relations Etat-économie au niveau local
No full textActes du Forum de la Régulation, Parigi-CEPREMA
L'evoluzione del sistema produttivo secondo la prospettiva della Regolazione: rassegna dei contributi più recenti
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Constitutions for Local Collective Action and Institutional Interdependence
No full textCollective action can take place at a plurality of levels. It has to be based on a constitution which defines the basic rules of interaction. Here, we are concerned with the problem of the constitutional setting of ‘‘bottom-up’’ formal institutions with a ‘‘club’’ nature. The pressure to improve the efficiency of services pushes local administrations to co-ordinate to produce public goods. This process has stimulated the birth of different forms of agencies or private companies with a ‘‘club’’ nature. The aim of this paper is to discuss the effects of institutional interdependence on the efficiency of this kind of collective action. In order to shed some light on this problem, the paper first discusses the problem of the relativity of efficiency to the institutional setting. A framework of analysis is then discussed to identify the main factors affecting collective action. Finally some evidence will be provided by a comparative institutional analysis performed on some case studies concerning local associational forms among communes in north-eastern Italy
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