The current economic situation demonstrates the failure of the market models that have dominated in recent decades, and the "crisis" is proof that the economic manuals need to be rewritten. This is the basis for the meeting organized by CISL in collaboration with AIMC at the Ferrara Chamber of Commerce at 9:15 a.m. on Saturday, February 14.
The model that could overcome the current situation, it is believed, could be that of the social economy, as emerges from the Encyclical CARITAS VERITATE, signed by Pope Benedict XVI on 29 June 2009.
The religious world and the secular world will therefore meet in the common belief that elements such as solidarity and fraternity must enter the economy and not remain outside of it.
We must overcome the contradiction between capital development and wealth redistribution.
The concepts of "redistribution of wealth", "solidarity" and "human dignity" are closely connected and permeate our legal system, as is evident from our constitutional provisions.
So, to get out of the crisis, it would be appropriate to review the concept of "human capital" and consider the "person" as the true foundation of the company's activity.
Hence the importance of the Encyclical of Benedict XVI, the subject of the Lectio Magistralis of HE Mons. Negri,
This message not only identifies the "problems" of this historical-economic phase, but also identifies the specific causes and suggests clear lines of intervention. This message, which places "fraternity" at the center of the reorganization of economic rules, offers a perspective for change in the current socioeconomic situation by spreading the concept of civil economy.
This will be followed by a "secular" debate involving prominent figures such as Patrizio Bianchi, Councillor for Labor Policies and Training at the Emilia-Romagna Region, Paolo Govoni, President of the Ferrara Chamber of Commerce, Andrea Gandini, economist and researcher at the CDS, and Giorgio Graziani, General Secretary of the Cisl Emilia-Romagna union.
Paolo Baiamonte, General Secretary of CISL Ferrara, the creator and organizer of the meeting, expressed his satisfaction with the participation of the Archbishop and the aforementioned figures, stating, "It is important to place the concept of brotherhood at the center of economic policy, and therefore of business. Only this can offer a perspective for changing the economic structures that continue to decimate the world of business and therefore of work."
