A Lexicon of Social Well-Being [Hardcover]

We must quickly learn how to live well in the world as it is today, including the realm of work. We need to learn a new vocabulary of economics and markets that is more suitable to understand the present world and that is likely to offer us the tools to act, and perhaps improve it as well.Introduction 1. Wealth 2. Goods 3. Relational Goods 4. Poverty 5. Capital 6. Critical Point 7. Experience Goods 8. Cooperation 9. Commons 10. Market 11. Innovation 12. Charisms 13. Consumption 14. Economy 15. Meekness 16. Time 17. Community 18. Institutions 19. Incentives 20. Dialogue 21. Prosperity 22. Work 23. Entrepreneur 24. Envy 25. Sloth 26. Esteem 27. Temperance 28. Justice 29. Fortitude 30. Hope 31. Faith 32. Agape

Luigino Bruni is Professor of Economics at Lumsa University, Rome, Italy. He works on ethics and economics, history of ideas, and philosophy of economics, with a special focus on the analysis of the interpersonal dimension in economic and social theory. He has rediscovered, together with Robert Sugden and Stefano Zamagni, the tradition of civil economy.