From Economy of Communion to Ecology of Communion

• Authors: John Raven
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

By way of introduction I have to say that I know little about the Focolari movement or the Economy of Communion group. This paper is offered on the assumption that the movement is dedicated to the radical transformation of society and not just tinkering at the edges in order to keep the economy as we know it going.

Keywords

EN

economy of communion; society; cybernetics

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Journal for Perspectives of Economic Political and Social Integration
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 19
• Issue: 1-2
• Pages: 269-291

Dates

online

2014-07-17

Contributors

author

John Raven

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10241-012-0022-6