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标题：Human Development in Business: Values and Humanistic Management in the Encyclical Caritas in Veritate, edited by Domènec Malé and Claus DierksmeierMichael Naughton, The Logic of Gift: Rethinking Business as a Community of Persons
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作者：Beth A. Rath
期刊名称：Catholic Social Science Review
印刷版ISSN：1091-0905
电子版ISSN：1944-6292
出版年度：2012
卷号：XVII
出版社：Society for Catholic Social Scientists
摘要：The recent financial crisis, for all the suffering it has wrought, has prompted the great good of rethinking current business models. Pope Benedict XVI, in his encyclical Caritas in veritate, attending to the ‘new things’ of a global economy in crisis, proposes that what is required is a “profoundly new way of understanding business enterprise” (§40). Specifically, he issues a challenge “to demonstrate, in thinking and behaviour, not only that traditional principles of social ethics cannot be ignored or attenuated, but also that in commercial relationships the principle of gratuitousness and the logic of gift as an expression of fraternity can and must find their place within normal economic activity. This is a human demand at the present time, but it is also demanded by economic logic. It is a demand of both charity and of truth” (§36, italics in original).