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L’articolo riassume un contributo al dibattito su Ernesto Rossi economista, nell’ambito di un evento promosso dalla Fondazione Rossi-Salvemini e dall’Associazione Economia Civile nel febbraio 2022 (di cui si ricordano le finalità nell’Introduzione). Scopo principale è sottolineare le affinità di pensiero tra Ernesto Rossi e Paolo Sylos Labini nel contesto della lotta alla ‘miseria’, ovvero nella definizione di strumenti di politica economica atti a ridurre le disuguaglianze economiche e valorizzare i ‘servizi essenziali’ a cui Rossi dedica ampio spazio nel suo Abolire la miseria ([1946] 1977).

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Even though the word brotherhood is not frequently mentioned in the text of Evangelii gaudium, it actually is one of the possible interpretations of this text. The brotherhood referred to in the EG is however a qualified brotherhood. It is the biblical brotherhood where conflicts are intertwined with hugs and life with death. It is the one of Cain and Abel, Joseph and his brothers, Rachel and Lia, Jacob and Esau, but also the ideal brotherhood between David and Jonathan or, finally, between Jesus and his friends. The way ancient people conceived brotherhood is different from the way modern people do and therefore, when we say that brotherhood should be reintroduced as a value in our civil and economic life, the question we should always ask is: which brotherhood is the one we desire? Friendship needs to know the other's name, brotherhood does not; friendship needs meeting, contacts, intimacy whereas brotherhood doesn't. The subject of this article is exactly this kind of brotherhood in dialogue with economy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This ethical reflection on the subject of the economy focuses in particular on the relationship between economics, individual responsibility and community roles, in the light of the serious difficulties we see in the current economic system. Starting with the question of how effective - or not - the connection is between the Magisterium of the Church and what we know about economics, the article examines how the Church's social teaching could contribute to the development of an economic understanding that can respond to the crises in the world economy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article reconstructs the historical roots of civil economy by means of a synthesis, reviewing first the experiences and work of the Enlightenment priest and philosopher Antonio Genovesi and then the critical literature on the subject. The civil economy, for Genovesi, is the ethical and popular dimension of economic life, one that entails the values of trust, or «public faith» and «reciprocity». On the basis of these values, the free market will not have supremacy over the state, nor the state over the market. Instead, there will be a system of mutual benefit and support, which will employ new forms of effort and citizen participation in public life. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]