Title page

Copyright

Contents

Preface

Part I - History

Chap 1 - What is civil economy?

Recounting and living a different history

A different market

Chap 2 - The cornerstones: Antonio Genovesi and Giacinto Dragonetti

The market is mutual assistance

Public happiness

Giacinto Dragonetti: rewarding virtues

Rewards, not just incentives

Against all rents

The eclipse of the civil economy

Chap 3 - Good wealth: John Ruskin

Which wealth is good?

Chap 4 - Rents: Achille Loria

Rents and land: two forgotten categories

A different idea about society

Chap 5 - The “Catholic” spirit of capitalism: Amintore Fanfani

Voluntarism and naturalism

The eclipse of virtues

Part II - Ideas

Chap 6 - Why GDP is not enough

The Italian tradition of social well-being

Beyond GDP: but how and to where?

Gross, as in dirty?

Chap 7 - Commong goods

The nature of the commons

Managing common goods

Chap 8 - Towards civil welfare

Recognizing ourselves as mutually vulnerable

Civil welfare and circular subsidiarity

Chap 9 - Socially responsible companies and consumers

The civilly responsible company

The centrality of the entrepreneur and of production

The responsibility of the citizen-consumer

Epilogue

References

Further readings

Index