Time

Luigino Bruni ()

A chapter in A Lexicon of Social Well-Being, 2015, pp 114-117 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract We are living through an eclipse of time. The logic of the capitalist economy, and its culture that is undisputedly dominating much of social and political life, do not know the dimension of time. In the most generous circumstances their cost-benefit analyses cover just a few days, months, or years. A radical tendency of capitalism is in fact the progressive shortening of the time span of economic choices, and thus of the policies that are increasingly guided by the same economic culture.

Keywords: Capitalist Economy; Great Work; Economic Culture; Economic Choice; Fragile Family (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137528889_31

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