Il mondo cattolico fra Stato, mercato ed economia civile : cooperazione e beni relazionali

The complex relationships and connections between Civil economy and the Catholic environment give the opportunity to investigate, from different points of view, aspects of the economic practice of the entrepreneurial network and of the cultural and theoretical paradigm of the Italian context of xx century. Based on this premise, the paper aims to deepen the analysis of the Italian cooperative movement, whose flourishing is also encouraged by the diffusion of the roots of catholic and «civil» thought in the Italian economic and social context. In parallel, the aim is to show how the contamination between catholic thought and civil economy affected economic theory of the Italian intellectual context of the second half of xx century retracing the genesis and main features concept of relational goods.