Book Review to Luigino Bruni - "Economics and Human Relations" (2007)

Reggiani, Tommaso (2008): Book Review to Luigino Bruni - "Economics and Human Relations" (2007). Published in: Oikonomia , Vol. Oikono, No. vol. 1/2008 (1 February 2008): pp. 44-46.

Abstract

Economics, with its promise of a human life without sacrifice, in late modernity age, is a great way to escape from the contagion of interpersonal relations. Crisis that our market-societies are suffering, are essentially relational crisis. They are originated by the great illusion that the anonymity of market - as well as the hierarchical firm - can produce a good standard of life, without any relational or inrerpersonal risk. This book is a deep analysis inside the modernity age, in order to explain the anthropological and cultural foundations on witch is based our contemporary economics theory.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: Italian
• Keywords: Anthropology of Economics , History of Economics Thought, Ethics in Economics, Happiness and Economics,
• Subjects: B - History of Economic Thought, Methodology, and Heterodox Approaches > B0 - General; Z - Other Special Topics > Z1 - Cultural Economics ; Economic Sociology ; Economic Anthropology; A - General Economics and Teaching > A1 - General Economics > A13 - Relation of Economics to Social Values; A - General Economics and Teaching > A1 - General Economics > A12 - Relation of Economics to Other Disciplines; A - General Economics and Teaching > A1 - General Economics > A11 - Role of Economics ; Role of Economists ; Market for Economists

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