Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: luigino bruni

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  • CAPITALISM AND CHRISTIANITY
    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. 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...

    $1,240.00

  • THE ECONOMICS OF VALUES, IDEALS AND ORGANIZATIONS
    LUIGINO BRUNI
    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...

    $640.00

  • THE ECONOMICS OF VALUES-BASED ORGANISATIONS
    LUIGINO BRUNI / ALESSANDRA SMERILLI
    This book looks at the governance of values-based organizations (VBOs), which are organizations with a mission and identity based on ideals. Examples of VBOs include non-profit organizations, charities, NGOs, environmental, educational or cultural organizations, and social enterprises. The main objective of any VBO is to evolve and grow without losing its identity, which its su...

    $1,200.00

  • THE CHARISMATIC PRINCIPLE IN SOCIAL LIFE
    LUIGINO BRUNI
    Max Weber laid the foundations for the meaning of ‘charisma’ in modern secular usage. This new volume argues for the importance of the ‘charismatic principle’ in history, economics and society. This volume brings together a number of contributors at the cross section between economics, theology, sociology and politics in order to set a research agenda for the following issues: ...

    $1,600.00

  • NEW ESSAYS ON PARETO'S ECONOMIC THEORY
    LUIGINO BRUNI
    Pareto's Manual of Political Economy, first published in 1905, introduced the analytical approach which has characterised a significant part of twentieth century economic theory. In particular, the Manual examined the ordinal representation of the individual choice, the issue of the general economic equilibrium and the Pareto optimality criterion for evaluating economic efficie...

    $1,460.00

  • CIVIL HAPPINESS
    LUIGINO BRUNI
    Economists have long laboured under the misapprehension that all humans exist as rational beings that find happiness in maximizing their personal utility. This impressive volume presents an historical review of the evolution of economic thought, from economic philosophy to contemporary mathematical economics, and its critique of how the human and social dimensions of economics ...

    $1,320.00

  • RECIPROCITY, ALTRUISM AND THE CIVIL SOCIETY
    LUIGINO BRUNI
    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 friendshi ...

    $1,000.00