Focolare Movement

The Wound and the Blessing

Apr 5, 2013

Economics, Relationships, and Happiness

by Luigino Bruni

The crisis that market societies are undergoing is essentially a crisis of relationships. It originates in the illusion that the market, through the actions of an “invisible hand” operating in impersonal market relationships, can present us a good common life exempt from the possibility of being wounded by the other.

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