scholarly journals Luigi Sturzo and Civil Economy

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-62
Author(s):  
Stefano Zamagni
Keyword(s):  
Market Economy ◽  
Research Program ◽  
Social Market Economy ◽  
The Political ◽  
Proper Understanding ◽  
The Social ◽  
Civil Economy ◽  
Argument Proceeds ◽  
Social Market

Abstract The paper defends the thesis that a proper understanding of Sturzo’s thought and work can be achieved only within the perspective of the civil economy paradigm. After exposing the main pillars characterizing the civil economy research program, the argument proceeds indicating the reasons why Sturzo did not consider adequate, for a country like Italy, the proposal of the social market economy. The paper concludes suggesting same reasons to explain the fin de non recevoir of the political establishment with respect to Sturzo’s testimony.

scholarly journals Civil Economy in the Social Market Economy: a Theoretical Perspective

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-98
Author(s):  
Flavio Felice
Keyword(s):  
Political Theory ◽  
Market Economy ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
The State ◽  
Social Market Economy ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Galaxy ◽  
Civil Economy ◽  
State And Market ◽  
Social Market

Abstract What do we mean by “civil” and “civil society”? This paper attempts to describe a complex notion of “civil economy” in Sturzo’s theoretical perspective of the social market economy. According to this political theory, “civil” is not opposed to “market,” which is not opposed to “the political” (the state). Rather, instead of being the transmission belt between the state and market, civil is the galaxy in which we find also the market and the state (but not only), each with its own functions. This tradition – rooted in Christianity – was able to oppose both Nazi and communist totalitarianism, while many Catholics made an impossible attempt to exhume corporatism.

scholarly journals Reciprocity in the Civil Economy: a Critical Assessment

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-74
Author(s):  
María Guadalupe Martino ◽  
Christian Müller
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
Social Market Economy ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Economic Market ◽  
Homo Oeconomicus ◽  
Market Interactions ◽  
Incentive Compatible ◽  
The Social ◽  
Civil Economy ◽  
Social Market

Abstract The civil economy approach is an attempt to reconcile economic market interactions with the normative standards of traditional virtue ethics. We analyze critically some of its main elements with a special focus on the concept of reciprocity, which plays a central role in the whole approach. Its strengths include, among others, virtue orientation, emphasis on happiness rather than utility, and in particular the notion of reciprocity. However, we argue that this concept of reciprocity would on average not be incentive compatible, and from a methodological point of view, the implied hypothesis of a homo reciprocans is not a viable alternative to the standard model of homo oeconomicus. We also consider that the approach is not entirely new, as it shares many characteristics with the social market economy conception.

The Social Market Economy — Present and Future

1993 ◽  
pp. 616-621
Author(s):  
Rolf H. Funck ◽  
Harry Böttcher ◽  
Jan S. Kowalski
Keyword(s):  
Market Economy ◽  
Social Market Economy ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Market
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