Giacomo Todeschini (Author)
Carocci Editore
Edition Details: Book Series: Frecce, No. 314
Physical Details: 334
Language: Italian
Il modo di ragionare economico moderno e contemporaneo, indipendentemente dalle dottrine e dalle teorie economiche, fa uso di metafore, similitudini e analogie molto antiche. Si pensa di solito che il denaro scorra nel Corpo economico della società come il sangue nel corpo umano, che la ricchezza debba fluire ed essere distribuita come l’acqua che fertilizza la terra. Soprattutto la rappresentazione della circolazione ininterrotta pervade il pensiero e la ragione economica moderna: quella degli economisti ma anche quella comune e quotidiana. Questo sistema di immagini, proveniente da un Medioevo solo in apparenza lontano, determina molta parte della sostanza concettuale del pensiero e del pensare economico attuali. E lo si ritrova sia in autori e testi in apparenza molto distanti fra loro per collocazione ideologica e politica, sia nella logica economica di tutti i giorni. È così che molti aspetti del ragionare economico e politico medievale, dalla giustificazione in termini naturali delle disuguaglianze alla rappresentazione dell’organizzazione sociale in quanto gerarchia naturale, sono entrati a far parte della razionalità economica moderna. (The modern and contemporary way of economic reasoning, regardless of economic doctrines and theories, makes use of very old metaphors, similes and analogies. It is usually thought that money flows through the economic body of society like blood through the human body, that wealth should flow and be distributed like water fertilizing the earth. Above all, the representation of uninterrupted circulation pervades modern economic thought and reason: that of economists but also that of the common, everyday one. This system of images, coming from an only seemingly distant Middle Ages, determines much of the conceptual substance of current economic thinking and thought. And it can be found both in authors and texts that are apparently very distant from each other in terms of ideological and political positioning and in everyday economic logic. Thus it is that many aspects of medieval economic and political reasoning, from the justification in natural terms of inequalities to the representation of social organization as a natural hierarchy, have become part of modern economic rationality.)
...MoreReview Fredona, Robert (Spring 2022) Review of "Come l'acqua e il sangue: le origini medievali del pensiero economico". Business History Review (pp. 208-211).
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