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This chapter aims at analyzing Edmans’ perspective on the role that public corporations should have in generating value for the society, presented in his book Grow the Pie: How Great Companies Deliver Both Purpose and Profit (Edmans, Grow the pie: how great companies deliver both purpose and profit. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2020). After summarizing his view, we provide a critical assessment through the lens of the Catholic Social Thought (CST), and one of its novel applications, i.e., Economy of Francesco (EoF) economic approach, proposing a novel way to reconcile the author’s view with CST’s approach.
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This terms usually refers to that corpus of encyclical letters, pastoral letters, conciliar and other official documents with a social focus.
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As Economy of Francesco economic approach gets its origin from the encyclical letter Laudato Sì (Francis 2015), it has a clear derivation from CST, but the latter cannot be seen only through the lens of the former, as many documents cooperated in the formation of CST.
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“We were created with a vocation to work” (Laudato Sì, #128).
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Ballarta, K., Calef, A., Roncella, A. (2023). ‘Growing the Pie’ in a Catholic Social Thought Perspective. In: Rotondi, V., Santori, P. (eds) Rethinking Economics Starting from the Commons. Contributions to Economics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-23324-1_8
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