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Iustin Emanuel ALEXANDRU

Academia de Studii Economice din Bucureşti

Petru Ciprian BRADU

Academia de Studii Economice din Bucureşti

Gheorghe USTINESCU

Academia de Studii Economice din Bucureşti

Alexandru TAŞNADI

Academia de Studii Economice din Bucureşti

This article aims to take a brief look at the capitalist spirit as exposed by Max Weber, with his well-known perspective on the protestant ethic, finding commonalities with the current catholic perspective of Pope Francis I on the care for “our common home”, as revealed in the Encyclical “Laudatio Si’” from 2015. From these two social and economic worldviews there will be observed the elements of economic thinking pertaining to a religious paradigm that is called to support the sustainable economic development message throughout the 21th century.

ŒCONOMICA no. 4/2017

Keywords: capitalist spirit, common home, Max Weber, Pope Francis I, religious paradigm, ecomenics

JEL: A13, Z12

The Capitalist Spirit in Our Common Home: Elements of Economic Thinking in the Religious Paradigm [Spiritul capitalist în casa noastră comună: elemente de gândire economică în paradigma religioasă]

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