The Wound and the Blessing: Economics, Relationships, and Happiness

by Luigino Bruni and Foreword by Charles M. A. Clark

This book offers the means of maximizing the benefits of the market through gratuitousness, free and open reciprocity.

The crisis that market societies are undergoing is essentially a crisis of relationships. It originates in the illusion that the market, through the actions of an "invisible hand" operating in impersonal market relationships, can present us a good common life exempt from the possibility of being wounded by the other.
...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1565484282
• ISBN13: 9781565484283
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: New City Press
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.3" x 8.4"