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Building an Integral Spiritual Ecology Through The Economy of Francesco: Using the Four Principles of the Theology of the People for a New Integral Economics

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  • Alejandro Cañadas

    (Bolte School of Business; Mount Saint Mary’s University and Center for Integral Ecology, Economics and iMpact (CIEEM))

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The Economy of Francesco (EoF) is a serious and urgent invitation to transform current economic thinking. In Laudato Si’, Pope Francis moves our hearts to undertake an integral, spiritual, and ecological conversion. The EoF is a necessary spiritual and intellectual exercise to transform the way we do finance and economics. After the catastrophic global financial crisis in 2009, and in a post-Covid era, this is the ideal time for a great reset in the ways we practice, live, and teach economics In this paper, I discuss three main ideas. First, four principles from the Theology of the People shaped Pope Francis’s thinking in Laudato Si’. Second, I suggest that these four principles from the theology of the People can be used to build The Economy of Francesco. Third, I claim that the works of Ronnie Lessem, Alexander Schieffer, and Robert Dellner are natural and current examples of the EoF.

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  • Alejandro Cañadas, 2021. "Building an Integral Spiritual Ecology Through The Economy of Francesco: Using the Four Principles of the Theology of the People for a New Integral Economics," Rivista Internazionale di Scienze Sociali, Vita e Pensiero, Pubblicazioni dell'Universita' Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, vol. 129(4), pages 451-470.
    • Handle: RePEc:vep:journl:y:2021:v:129:i:4:p:451-470
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    Keywords

    Economy of Francesco; Theology of the People; Integral; Spiritual; Ecological; Economics;
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