NEW FINANCIAL
HORIZONS
The Emergence of an Economy of Communion
Lorna Gold, Foreword by Michael Naughton
The Emergence of an Economy
of Communion
PAPERBACK; 224 PAGES; 2010
ISBN: 978-1-56548-354-5
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Celebrating the 20th Anniversary of the Economy of Communion
Some Reviews:
“Gold examines the origins and substance of a promising alternative
to the current globalized economy. During a 1991 trip to Brazil, Chiara Lubich
challenged Focolare members to launch businesses that could create jobs and
opportunities. Almost twenty years later, Benedict XVI cited the Economy of
Communion in Caritas in Veritate as a promising form of intermediate activity
between for-profit business and classic non-profit institutions.”
John L. Allen Jr.
“What Gold has provided
… is a theologically grounded understanding of a robust culture that
has the capacity to engage the whole human person as a unity to overcome the
divisive effects of a fragmented and divided self in economic life. It not
only tells the story of the Economy of Communion, but it provides a model
for entrepreneurs and managers who are interested in building communities
of work and not merely nexuses of exchange. It is a book that should be widely
read in the U.S., especially in the academy, which too often lacks such integrative
and interdisciplinary analysis between theoretical visions and practical experience.”
Michael J. Naughton,
Moss Chair of Catholic Social Thought, University of St. Thomas, MN
“Rather than merely
describing, praising, or criticizing, it sets out to answer questions such
as, Is the EOC a new model of the firm? Is it a workable model? Can it guide
us in the current debate on how to overcome the models based on self-interest?
New Financial Horizons is a very readable book that will interest many educated
readers, even those who have no specialized knowledge of economics, theology,
or business ethics. All the information they need in order to understand the
history and messages of the EOC is provided.”
Antonio Argandoña,
IESE Business School, University of Navarra, Spain in Journal of Markets &
Morality, Vol 14, No.1 (2011)
Gold [describes] the challenges
faced by the world at the dawn of our new millennium as a nexus of crises:
economic recession, social inequality, environmental threat, and political
instability … Gold traces their problems to the assumption that a human
being is best described as homo oeconomicus. This positing of “rational
economic man” at the core of human existence marks a definitional exclusion
of trust and relationality, making it difficult to imagine an alternative
reality … Gold reclaims ways of imagining human existence that do not
assume self-interested rational choice at their core, taking Focolare and
its EoC networks – launched in Brazil in 1991 but now spread around
the world – as her primary example … One need not subscribe to
the movement’s social trinitarianism in order to see such work as vitally
important.
Brett McCarty, in The Living Church
About the author Lorna
Gold, Foreword by Michael Naughton
Lorna Gold currently works as Policy and Advocacy Manager with the Irish Catholic
Agency for International Development, Trócaire. Before joining Trócaire,
she received a Ph.D. in Economic Geography from the University of Glasgow
and worked in the Department of Politics in the University of York. She writes
extensively on global economic and social development, with a particular focus
on the contribution of Christian social thought in addressing the challenges
of ethical globalization.
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