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A Lexicon of Social Well-Being DOI: 10.1057/9781137528889.0001 Other Palgrave Pivot titles Michael Byron: Submission and Subjection in Leviathan: Good Subjects in the Hobbesian Commonwealth Andrew Szanajda: The Allies and the German Problem, 1941–1949: From Cooperation to Alternative Settlement Joseph E. Stiglitz and Refet S. 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Savage and Benno Torgler: The Times They Are a Changin’: The Effect of Institutional Change on Cooperative Behaviour at 26,000 ft over Sixty Years Mike Finn (editor): The Gove Legacy: Education in Britain after the Coalition DOI: 10.1057/9781137528889.0001 A Lexicon of Social Well-Being Luigino Bruni DOI: 10.1057/9781137528889.0001 © Luigino Bruni 2015 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2015 978-1-137-52887-2 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No portion of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, Saffron House, 6–10 Kirby Street, London EC1N 8TS. Any person who does any unauthorized act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. The author has asserted his right to be identified as the author of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. First published 2015 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN Palgrave Macmillan in the UK is an imprint of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan in the US is a division of St Martin’s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries. ISBN: 978-1-137-52888-9 PDF ISBN: 978-1-349-50678-1 A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. A catalog record for this book is available from the Library of Congress. www.palgrave.com/pivot DOI: 10.1057/9781137528889 This book is dedicated to my parents from whom I learned the first words of life. DOI: 10.1057/9781137528889.0001 Contents Acknowledgments viii Introduction 1 Agape 5 Capital 9 Charisms 13 Commons 17 Community 21 Consumption 25 Cooperation 29 Critical Point 33 Dialogue 37 Economy 40 Entrepreneur 44 Envy 47 Esteem 50 Experience Goods 53 Faith 57 Fortitude 61 Goods 64 Hope 68 Incentives 72 Innovation 76 vi DOI: 10.1057/9781137528889.0001 Contents vii Institutions 80 Justice 84 Market 88 Meekness 92 Poverty 96 Prosperity 100 Relational Goods 103 Sloth 107 Temperance 110 Time 114 Wealth 118 Work 122 DOI: 10.1057/9781137528889.0001 Acknowledgments This is not a typical academic book, but it is a book writ- ten by an academic (economist and historian of ideas). Its goal or ambition is to speak not only to my colleagues, but to each one who is in search of new words for this era of globalization and financial capitalism. First, I would like to thank Marco Tarquinio, the Director of the Italian journal Avvenire, who published my first articles in this area; then thanks to the translators Eszter Kató and Michael Brennen. Finally thanks to Antonella Ferrucci, the coordinator and “heart” of this complex work. viii DOI: 10.1057/9781137528889.0002 Introduction “Crisis” is no longer a proper word to describe our times. The reality is that we are living in an extended transitional period and a paradigm shift that started well before 2007, one that is very likely to last for a long time. Therefore 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 that is more suitable to under- stand the present world (not the previous one we knew) and that is likely to offer us the tools to act, and perhaps improve it as well. There is a new kind of collective indigence: we can no longer understand our own economy, our work, or our nonwork. If we become aware of this new “lexical” indi- gence and of the mindset behind it, we will start – or perhaps continue – to write a kind of “Vocabulary of a Good Social Life.” This is an expression borrowed from, or given to us by, the Neapolitan economist and historian Ludovico Bianchini, who held the same teaching post as Antonio Genovesi just a hundred years later. He chose the title On the Science of a Good Social Life (Della scienza del ben vivere sociale) for his 1845 study in economics. A new lexicon does not emerge from nothing. A new lexicon always feeds on and develops from previous words and makes way for those of the future. Therefore it is always temporary, partial, and necessarily incomplete; it is a work in progress, a toolkit for reasoning and acting. There are some fundamental words of social life that need to be rethought, or even rewritten, if we want civil and economic life to be “good,” and possibly also just. Right now DOI: 10.1057/9781137528889.0003 1
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