“Goods become welfare, only if they are shared”

A brief interview with Luigino Bruni, head of the Economy of Communion (EoC) international commission in Rome

“Today the global economy is living the harshest crisis since the post-war era. What is at stake is not only the fluctuating economic growth, or a recession for some nations: it is the very nature of capitalism that is revealing its fragility. There are many reasons for this, but the main one has to do with a lack of communion.  

This is why the Economy of Communion is very relevant and needed today. It was born from Chiara Lubich as a response to a lack of communion, from the scandalous sight of a world that knows how to build skyscrapers but is unable to eliminate the favelas.

We have met recently in Vienna with a group of entrepreneurs and scholars from different European nations. The goal of this meeting was to present EoC and its culture as a seed for a new Europe able to launch a new season of trust and communion in today’s Europe that lacks trust in its political structures. 

The world is suffering today because the economy has multiplied goods, but no longer knows how to transform these goods into welfare: the EoC, with the charism based on universal fraternity that animates it, recalls with deeds and ideas that goods become welfare only if they are shared, only in an economy of communion.”