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The economical thought at Caritas in veritate
with Luigino Bruni
THE CRISIS SAVES ITSELF FROM BELOW
The crisis is over,
if we think about the financial crisis,
about the financial markets,
it’s a bit less
if we think about the work,
because certainly this crisis
has had several prospects.
The finance, the production, and the work.
The finance we could say that
the global default is warded off,
at least in the short period,
the production is restarting,
it seems, it gives some signals,
what doesn't restart is the work.
So, we can not imagine that
traditional economy will give
the same work which it gave before the crisis.
So, we must re-imagine other forms of work.
I think for example, there will be
a role of the civil very important,
also in producing places of work.
So the crisis is, more or less, passed
Anyway I agree on the fact that
the lesson seems unheard,
at least in good part.
I don't see big changes of life style,
that means I don't have
the impression of observing
an exam of collective consciousness,
which brings to a major sobriety,
to a more respect for the environment,
has a more careful attitude
in relation to the saving,
to a more supportive consume,
I see few signals.
There is something, I don't want to be pessimistic,
but I was expecting,
something more.
When the crisis is started, I hoped
maybe ingenuously, that this painful experience
which was becoming community,
on a global level,
should have produced more changes in life styles,
than until today it seems to me
that they have not been realized.
The encyclical has remained unheard?
But, my impression is that it has not arrived
to levels of politics and of economics,
of the big institutions;
I don't know how many international
policy makers or
big managers have seriously meditated,
studied, on this encyclical!
Certainly something has been done,
but, any way, there are not only the encyclical,
which change the story,
we need the witness of the people,
it’s necessary that the encyclical
gives a voice to a population
to many experiences that,
from below really change
the economy, the civil life.
I believe that if the encyclical is going to produce,
like partially is doing,
movements from below,
changes of behaviour,
like it was for example in the first encyclical
of the popes of the end the eight century,
the Rerum novarum, which gave life
to an entire syndical movement,
gave life to an entire political and civil action
very important among the Catholics.
So that type of encyclical
changed the story!
If today it will happens something similar,
form below, in many,
so we may be full of hope.