Luigino Bruni
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 973827 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Luigino Bruni |
| NOMBRES | Luigino |
| APELLIDO | Bruni |
| FIRMA | BRUNI L |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Milano-Bicocca |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2005-5610 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 32 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 100 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 27 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 9 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2000 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
At the Roots of Business Ethics
Capitalism and Christianity
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. The first part of the book explores the history of the relationship between capitalism and Christianity. Going back much further than Weber’s “protestant ethic” arguments, it looks at the early centuries of Christianity from the gospels to Augu…
The theological stems of modern economic ideas
Voluntarism is a medieval theological doctrine that argues that God’s will takes precedence over God’s intellect and explores the consequences on the relation between Creation and the Creator. We show that Duns Scotus’s theological voluntarism had an important impact on his economic teachings. Moreover, we suggest that it opened an ontological path that fostered the theorisation of modern economic ideas. Voluntarism undermined the Aristotelian-Th…
In praise of the persona economica
We live in the era of the commons, and we experience the tragedy of their daily overexploitation (Hardin, 1994 ). This is also true for so-called global commons, such as the oceans, biodiversity, and outer space. The most challenging tragedy we are currently facing is undoubtedly the deterioration of the biosphere (Dasgupta, 2021 ) due to climate change. Although over six billion “players” take part in the global tragedy of the commons—“a game th…
The other invisible hand. The social and economic effects of theodicy in Vico and Genovesi
This paper explores the implications for modern economic thought of the debate on Theodicy, i.e., the coexistence of a good, almighty God and worldly evils. In the 17th century, this problem was raised by Pierre Bayle. The analysis focuses on the 18th century Italian school of Civil economy represented by Antonio Genovesi. Our argument is that Genovesi, and Giambattista Vico before him, reacted to Bayle’s Manichaean and Atheistic view on theodicy…
The Illusion of Merit and the Demons of Economic Meritocracy
The Economics of Values, Ideals and Organizations
Values-based organizations are institutions, communities and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) which are inspired by a mission or a vocation – for these groups it is their ideals which are most important to them and economics does not have a way to incorporate that into its analysis. This book provides a short introduction to the economics of values-based organizations. The book opens with an analysis of some phenomena common to all organizat…
Sociedad civil y bien común. Hacia una nueva articulación del mercado, el estado y la sociedad civil. Tomo I
La presente obra propone una sana relación entre las lógicas del mercado, del Estado y del don -cuya sede principal es la sociedad civil-, sin que cada una de esas dimensiones pierda su propia autonomía relativa. No solamente plantea dicha nueva articulación en el nivel teórico, sino que la muestra en nuevas praxis sociales, sobre todo en el nivel local y micro, pero con proyecciones posibles tanto nacionales como continentales y globales. Un cam…
Policies for Happiness
Happiness research is raising new questions that capture the attention of a growing public audience. This book considers three classes of such questions, attempting to provide answers in a format that is broadly accessible. The first class of questions considered pertains to foundational issues and can be summarized as follows: should happiness research be taken seriously for the purposes of policy-making? Is subjective well-being a meaningful po…
Handbook of Research Methods and Applications in Happiness and Quality of Life
In order to proceed with exploring the methodological issues related to the measurement (indicators of happiness) and evaluation (quality of happiness), it is important to clarify what we mean by the term ‘happiness’. The debate around the definition of a new approach of measuring well-being of nations has put ‘happiness’ at the centre of concerns by highlighting, among others, two aspects to be considered: the individual observation and the subj…
Handbook of Research Methods and Applications in Happiness and Quality of Life
Policies for Happiness
Les relations en tant que biens
Cet article se propose d'approfondir la précieuse notion, développée depuis une trentaine d'années tant en philosophie, en sociologie et en économie, de « bien relationnel ». Si l'économie traditionnelle ne peut faire droit à de tels biens, n'est-ce pas parce qu'elle ne voit que des individus, des individus qui font des choix (entre des biens) et qui ne nouent de relations que pour mieux maximiser ces biens ? Or, montre l'auteur, il est des biens…
Economics and Theology in Italy since the Eighteenth Century
The “classic” Christian tradition of sociality, here referred to as Aristotelian-Thomistic, found a significant expression in economics within the eighteenth-century Neapolitan tradition of Civil Economy. This Civil Economy tradition includes the works Antonio Genovesi and Giacinto Dragonetti, which are examined in detail. It was submerged by other currents of modernity but has reappeared in recent Roman Catholic economic thought, in particular P…
Beyond Carrots and Sticks
This paper is based on the intuition of Dragonetti, an old Neapolitan economist, which argues that a society experiences economic and civic development if agents promote values and virtues, more than solely rely on punishments stated by law. We thus study the evolution of cooperative behaviors using a mechanism of endogenous social rewards for cooperation (SRC). These additional (material) rewards depend on the recognition that the society—each a…
The Paretian Turn
Using his "naked fact" methodology of rational choice theory, this article discusses Pareto's re-foundation of microeconomics. Before Pareto, first generation neoclassical economists based their approach on theoretical and experimental psychology, something methodologically similar to what contemporary behavioural economics does. During the 20th century, Pareto, and mainstream microeconomists, treated economics as a separate science of rational c…
Reclaiming Virtue Ethics for Economics
Virtue ethics is an important strand of moral philosophy, and a significant body of philosophical work in virtue ethics is associated with a radical critique of the market economy and of economics. Expressed crudely, the charge sheet is this: The market depends on instrumental rationality and extrinsic motivation; market interactions therefore fail to respect the internal value of human practices and the intrinsic motivations of human actors; by …
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
The Charismatic Principle in Social Life
Sustainable development, which is as necessary for everyone as much as it is not yet shared by all since it calls issues of profits and advantage into question, needs courageous, creative, competent and enthusiastic people. People who add vigour to a theory where value does not always correspond just to stock market capitalization, but looks towards the intrinsic value which lies behind every act that man and organisations within which he operate…
The happiness of sociality. Economics and eudaimonia
The paper discusses some issues of the debate on happiness in economics. In particular it deals with the relationship between happiness and sociality. In fact, in contemporary ‘economics and happiness’ literature there is a new interest in interpersonal relationships thanks to the huge empirical evidence that genuine sociality is one of the heaviest components of self-reported happiness. At the same time, mainstream economics is badly equipped fo…
Pareto’s legacy in modern economics. The case of psychology
1. Introduction In the late 19th century, neoclassical economics (the economics of rational choice and maximisation) developed. Originally, neoclassical economics was grounded on utilitarian psychology – the assumption that there exists a one-dimensional, interpersonally comparable measure of mental states (‘pleasure’), and the hypothesis that rational individual choice was maximisation of this measure. But some embarrassment about the fact that …
Éros, Philia et Agapè
À partir de la distinction classique entre Éros, Philia et Agapè, cet article présente une théorie multidimensionnelle de la réciprocité. Après avoir décrit les principes caractéristiques de chacune d'entre elles, il montre comment elles interagissent. La thèse principale de cet article est que seule une approche pluraliste de la réciprocité, du contrat au don, permet d'analyser comment la réciprocité peut être viable à long terme
The Value of Vocation. The Crucial Role of Intrinsically Motivated People in Values-based Organizations
The aim of the paper is to analyze the dynamics that arise in Values-based Organizations when ideal quality deteriorates. On the basis of Hirschman's “exit and voice” model, we analyze the mechanism that encourage the best subjects, the ones intrinsically motivated who care most about the mission and ideal quality of the organization, to leave the organization if their voice is ignored. By combining Hirschman's and a “critical mass” model, we sho…
Capabilities and Happiness
Few would dispute that the well-being of individuals is one of the most desirable aims of human actions. However, approaches on how to define, measure, evaluate, and promote well-being differ widely. The conventional economic approach takes income (or the power to acquire market goods) as the most important indicator for well-being, and the utility function as the formal device for positive and normative analysis. However, this approach to well-b…
Religious Values and Corporate Decision Making
INTRODUCTION Recently some of the legal, economic and management literature has begun to explore the numerous complex questions and concerns that arise with the prospect of integrating religious perspectives, values and frameworks into business life. From economic and legal perspectives, does integration of religious perspectives threaten the integrity of current business structures? From a religious perspective, might integration of religious be…
The Road not Taken
This article explores parallels between the debate prompted by Pareto's reformulation of choice theory at the beginning of the twentieth century and current controversies about the status of behavioural economics. Before Pareto's reformulation, neoclassical economics was based on theoretical and experimental psychology, as behavioural economics now is. Current 'discovered preference' defences of rational-choice theory echo arguments made by Paret…
Fraternity
This paper reappraises the idea, traceable to Adam Smith, of a fundamental distinction between market transactions and genuinely social relationships. On Smith's account, each party to a market transaction pursues his own interests, subject only to the law of contract. Using the work of Smith's contemporary Antonio Genovesi as our starting point, we reconstruct an alternative understanding of market interactions as instances of a wider class of r…
Vilfredo Pareto and the Epistemological Foundations of Choice Theory
Research Article| March 01 2001 Vilfredo Pareto and the Epistemological Foundations of Choice Theory Luigino Bruni; Luigino Bruni Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Francesco Guala Francesco Guala Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (2001) 33 (1): 21–49. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-33-1-21 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions S…
Reciprocity, Altruism and the Civil Society
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 friendship to unconditional behaviour. Bruni'ss historical-methodological analysis of reciprocity is a way of…
Reclaiming Virtue Ethics for Economics
Virtue ethics is an important strand of moral philosophy, and a significant body of philosophical work in virtue ethics is associated with a radical critique of the market economy and of economics. Expressed crudely, the charge sheet is this: The market depends on instrumental rationality and extrinsic motivation; market interactions therefore fail to respect the internal value of human practices and the intrinsic motivations of human actors; by …
Pareto’s legacy in modern economics. The case of psychology
1. Introduction In the late 19th century, neoclassical economics (the economics of rational choice and maximisation) developed. Originally, neoclassical economics was grounded on utilitarian psychology – the assumption that there exists a one-dimensional, interpersonally comparable measure of mental states (‘pleasure’), and the hypothesis that rational individual choice was maximisation of this measure. But some embarrassment about the fact that …
Beyond Carrots and Sticks
This paper is based on the intuition of Dragonetti, an old Neapolitan economist, which argues that a society experiences economic and civic development if agents promote values and virtues, more than solely rely on punishments stated by law. We thus study the evolution of cooperative behaviors using a mechanism of endogenous social rewards for cooperation (SRC). These additional (material) rewards depend on the recognition that the society—each a…
The Paretian Turn
Using his "naked fact" methodology of rational choice theory, this article discusses Pareto's re-foundation of microeconomics. Before Pareto, first generation neoclassical economists based their approach on theoretical and experimental psychology, something methodologically similar to what contemporary behavioural economics does. During the 20th century, Pareto, and mainstream microeconomists, treated economics as a separate science of rational c…
The happiness of sociality. Economics and eudaimonia
The paper discusses some issues of the debate on happiness in economics. In particular it deals with the relationship between happiness and sociality. In fact, in contemporary ‘economics and happiness’ literature there is a new interest in interpersonal relationships thanks to the huge empirical evidence that genuine sociality is one of the heaviest components of self-reported happiness. At the same time, mainstream economics is badly equipped fo…
Éros, Philia et Agapè
À partir de la distinction classique entre Éros, Philia et Agapè, cet article présente une théorie multidimensionnelle de la réciprocité. Après avoir décrit les principes caractéristiques de chacune d'entre elles, il montre comment elles interagissent. La thèse principale de cet article est que seule une approche pluraliste de la réciprocité, du contrat au don, permet d'analyser comment la réciprocité peut être viable à long terme
The Value of Vocation. The Crucial Role of Intrinsically Motivated People in Values-based Organizations
The aim of the paper is to analyze the dynamics that arise in Values-based Organizations when ideal quality deteriorates. On the basis of Hirschman's “exit and voice” model, we analyze the mechanism that encourage the best subjects, the ones intrinsically motivated who care most about the mission and ideal quality of the organization, to leave the organization if their voice is ignored. By combining Hirschman's and a “critical mass” model, we sho…
Economia civileandpubblica felicitàin the Italian Enlightenment
Research Article| December 01 2003 Economia civile and pubblica felicità in the Italian Enlightenment Luigino Bruni; Luigino Bruni Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Pier Luigi Porta Pier Luigi Porta Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (2003) 35 (Suppl_1): 361–385. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-35-Suppl_1-361 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Aud…
Ego Facing Alter
The paper analyses, in a historical perspective, how economists approached human interactions. In particular it is aimed at: (a) showing that in the beginning of economic science some economists, Genovesi and Smith in particular, analysed many dimensions of human interactions, and their account of rational economic behaviour was complex and not only instrumental; (b) analysing, through the works of Pareto and Wicksteed, the main turning point in …
Ego Facing Alter
The paper analyses, in a historical perspective, how economists approached human interactions. In particular it is aimed at: (a) showing that in the beginning of economic science some economists, Genovesi and Smith in particular, analysed many dimensions of human interactions, and their account of rational economic behaviour was complex and not only instrumental; (b) analysing, through the works of Pareto and Wicksteed, the main turning point in …
Vilfredo Pareto and the Epistemological Foundations of Choice Theory
Research Article| March 01 2001 Vilfredo Pareto and the Epistemological Foundations of Choice Theory Luigino Bruni; Luigino Bruni Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Francesco Guala Francesco Guala Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (2001) 33 (1): 21–49. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-33-1-21 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions S…
Economia civileandpubblica felicitàin the Italian Enlightenment
Research Article| December 01 2003 Economia civile and pubblica felicità in the Italian Enlightenment Luigino Bruni; Luigino Bruni Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Pier Luigi Porta Pier Luigi Porta Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google History of Political Economy (2003) 35 (Suppl_1): 361–385. https://doi.org/10.1215/00182702-35-Suppl_1-361 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Aud…
Hic sunt leones
'Political Economy does not treat of the whole of man's nature as modified by the social state, nor of the whole conduct of man in society. It is concerned with him solely as a being who desires to possess wealth, and who is capable of judging that end...It makes entire abstraction of every other human passion or motive' (Mill, 1897/1836, pp. 132–3).
Handbook on the Economics of Happiness
Bruni, L.; Porta, PL; Vivenza, G; Drakopoulos, S; Karayiannis, A; Guidi, MEL; Scazzieri, R; Cremaschi, S; Bianchi, M; Guillen Royo, M, Cogoy, M; Vendrik, M, Hirata, J; Raghunathan, R; Irwin, JR; Chekola, M; Becchetti, L; Santoro, M; Pugno, M; Pelligra, V; Zarri, L; Bartolini, S; Cox, D; Stark, O; de Jesus Garcia, J; Christa Fuentes, N; Borrego, SA; Gutierrez, MD; Tapia, A; Peiro, A; Powdthavee, N; Crivelli, L; Domenighetti, G; Filippini, M; Marze…
Handbook on the Economics of Happiness
The Road not Taken
This article explores parallels between the debate prompted by Pareto's reformulation of choice theory at the beginning of the twentieth century and current controversies about the status of behavioural economics. Before Pareto's reformulation, neoclassical economics was based on theoretical and experimental psychology, as behavioural economics now is. Current 'discovered preference' defences of rational-choice theory echo arguments made by Paret…
Capabilities and Happiness
Few would dispute that the well-being of individuals is one of the most desirable aims of human actions. However, approaches on how to define, measure, evaluate, and promote well-being differ widely. The conventional economic approach takes income (or the power to acquire market goods) as the most important indicator for well-being, and the utility function as the formal device for positive and normative analysis. However, this approach to well-b…
Watching alone
Capabilities and happiness
Reciprocity, Altruism and the Civil Society
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 friendship to unconditional behaviour. Bruni'ss historical-methodological analysis of reciprocity is a way of…
Fraternity
This paper reappraises the idea, traceable to Adam Smith, of a fundamental distinction between market transactions and genuinely social relationships. On Smith's account, each party to a market transaction pursues his own interests, subject only to the law of contract. Using the work of Smith's contemporary Antonio Genovesi as our starting point, we reconstruct an alternative understanding of market interactions as instances of a wider class of r…
The Value of Vocation. The Crucial Role of Intrinsically Motivated People in Values-based Organizations
The aim of the paper is to analyze the dynamics that arise in Values-based Organizations when ideal quality deteriorates. On the basis of Hirschman's “exit and voice” model, we analyze the mechanism that encourage the best subjects, the ones intrinsically motivated who care most about the mission and ideal quality of the organization, to leave the organization if their voice is ignored. By combining Hirschman's and a “critical mass” model, we sho…
The happiness of sociality. Economics and eudaimonia
The paper discusses some issues of the debate on happiness in economics. In particular it deals with the relationship between happiness and sociality. In fact, in contemporary ‘economics and happiness’ literature there is a new interest in interpersonal relationships thanks to the huge empirical evidence that genuine sociality is one of the heaviest components of self-reported happiness. At the same time, mainstream economics is badly equipped fo…
Pareto’s legacy in modern economics. The case of psychology
1. Introduction In the late 19th century, neoclassical economics (the economics of rational choice and maximisation) developed. Originally, neoclassical economics was grounded on utilitarian psychology – the assumption that there exists a one-dimensional, interpersonally comparable measure of mental states (‘pleasure’), and the hypothesis that rational individual choice was maximisation of this measure. But some embarrassment about the fact that …
Éros, Philia et Agapè
À partir de la distinction classique entre Éros, Philia et Agapè, cet article présente une théorie multidimensionnelle de la réciprocité. Après avoir décrit les principes caractéristiques de chacune d'entre elles, il montre comment elles interagissent. La thèse principale de cet article est que seule une approche pluraliste de la réciprocité, du contrat au don, permet d'analyser comment la réciprocité peut être viable à long terme
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
The Charismatic Principle in Social Life
Sustainable development, which is as necessary for everyone as much as it is not yet shared by all since it calls issues of profits and advantage into question, needs courageous, creative, competent and enthusiastic people. People who add vigour to a theory where value does not always correspond just to stock market capitalization, but looks towards the intrinsic value which lies behind every act that man and organisations within which he operate…
The Paretian Turn
Using his "naked fact" methodology of rational choice theory, this article discusses Pareto's re-foundation of microeconomics. Before Pareto, first generation neoclassical economists based their approach on theoretical and experimental psychology, something methodologically similar to what contemporary behavioural economics does. During the 20th century, Pareto, and mainstream microeconomists, treated economics as a separate science of rational c…
Reclaiming Virtue Ethics for Economics
Virtue ethics is an important strand of moral philosophy, and a significant body of philosophical work in virtue ethics is associated with a radical critique of the market economy and of economics. Expressed crudely, the charge sheet is this: The market depends on instrumental rationality and extrinsic motivation; market interactions therefore fail to respect the internal value of human practices and the intrinsic motivations of human actors; by …
Economics and Theology in Italy since the Eighteenth Century
The “classic” Christian tradition of sociality, here referred to as Aristotelian-Thomistic, found a significant expression in economics within the eighteenth-century Neapolitan tradition of Civil Economy. This Civil Economy tradition includes the works Antonio Genovesi and Giacinto Dragonetti, which are examined in detail. It was submerged by other currents of modernity but has reappeared in recent Roman Catholic economic thought, in particular P…
Beyond Carrots and Sticks
This paper is based on the intuition of Dragonetti, an old Neapolitan economist, which argues that a society experiences economic and civic development if agents promote values and virtues, more than solely rely on punishments stated by law. We thus study the evolution of cooperative behaviors using a mechanism of endogenous social rewards for cooperation (SRC). These additional (material) rewards depend on the recognition that the society—each a…
Policies for Happiness
Happiness research is raising new questions that capture the attention of a growing public audience. This book considers three classes of such questions, attempting to provide answers in a format that is broadly accessible. The first class of questions considered pertains to foundational issues and can be summarized as follows: should happiness research be taken seriously for the purposes of policy-making? Is subjective well-being a meaningful po…
Handbook of Research Methods and Applications in Happiness and Quality of Life
In order to proceed with exploring the methodological issues related to the measurement (indicators of happiness) and evaluation (quality of happiness), it is important to clarify what we mean by the term ‘happiness’. The debate around the definition of a new approach of measuring well-being of nations has put ‘happiness’ at the centre of concerns by highlighting, among others, two aspects to be considered: the individual observation and the subj…
Handbook of Research Methods and Applications in Happiness and Quality of Life
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