Friendship‚ Markets‚ and Reciprocal Gifts
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Friendship‚ Markets‚ and Reciprocal Gifts

In his 2009 encyclical‚ Caritas in Veritate‚ Pope Benedict XVI highlighted the inadequacy of a social imaginary that includes only the market and the state: The exclusively binary model of market-plus-State is corrosive of society‚ while economic forms based on solidarity‚ which find their natural home in civil society without being restricted to it‚ build up society. Continue Reading...