Abstract
The Participants to the Centesimus Annus Pro-Pontifice Foundations gathered for a a Seminar on Finance and the Common Good, engaging a dialogue between theological reflection and financial practice, in order to foster social concern.To be at the service of the human person, economic activity requires both an ethical and legal
framework. In particular, the market can only work within an ethical framework of trust.
That ethical framework needs to be concretized in juridical norms which guarantee fair-play,
competition and transparency. The legal framework must also ensure that economic freedom
is situated within a wider system of fundamental human values, and that certain “collective
goods” (CA, #40) – including the rights of workers - are protected, and that or certain
fundamental human needs which “find no place on the market” (#34) do not remain
unsatisfied.
| Lingua originale | English |
|---|---|
| Titolo della pubblicazione ospite | Finance and the Common Good. Placing People at the Center of the Economy and Society |
| Pagine | 135-167 |
| Numero di pagine | 33 |
| Stato di pubblicazione | Pubblicato - 2016 |
Keywords
- Ethics
- Financial risk and regulation
- Service to costumers
- Urbanization and poverty