Der Artikel beschaeftigt sich mit der Bedeutung des Homo oeconomicus fuer die Wirtschaftswissenschaften in der Vergangenheit, der Gegenwart und Zukunft. Quintessenz der Untersuchung ist, dass die wahre Bedeutung des Homo oeconomicus weniger in seiner methodologischen Funktion zu sehen ist, als...

Economy of communion proposed in 1991 by Chiara Lubich (1920-2008), founder and contemporary president of the Focolare Movement, is the subject of numerous scientific studies and analysis of its practical implementation by the scientists of different disciplines in a global dimension....

This paper focuses on the relationship between the concept of social capital and the role of the civl economy as source of pro-social values and norms that constitute the individuals determinants of social capital.

"Written with the attempt to tell credible history and possible scenes, in order to anticipate still latent tendencies, or in order to imagine communities and societies more civil, richer than reciprocity, in all its shapes. " (p. xv). From this ambitious premised the author of the issue takes...