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What to expect from the G-8 then? The recent report by the International Labour Organisation (ILO) 'The financial and economic crisis: response to decent work' provides some impressive data on unemployment. Among the unemployed, many belong to the most vulnerable groups (migrant workers, women, unskilled workers, young people seeking their first employment) that often have no access to any form of social protection. Without Social Security, losing a job means for these people slip below the poverty line is estimated that between 40 and 50% of the world will fail in 2009, to overcome the line of two dollars a day per capita. afresh from the "priority of labor" and the subject labor, to use a typical expression of the social doctrine of the Church, offers a viable prospect for boosting economic development. In this regard, the slogan "People First" should not remain a formal message. Instead, it must summarize the availability of the G-8 countries to develop policies that recognize the priority of society over the "state" and the "market" understood abstractly, emphasizing the subjectivity of personal and communal. People and communities are in fact carriers of needs, but also of real resources, individual and community (where, as in France, has developed a more adequate family policy on the fall in GDP was smaller). They are, More specifically, carriers say that all strategic resources. We could talk about human and social capital, but rather to clarify that it is the unique ability of human beings to "give a name to things and to continue the work of creation. The Church's social doctrine uses the term "work" (and not capital!) To express these capabilities and unique vocation.

The Sleep of Reason Produces crisis

Angelo Scola

all men. Both sides of the current crisis, the emergency that has originated in developed markets and the chronic inadequacy of resources to support the actual development, raise an unavoidable moral issue. To do no moralizing, which typically takes aim at the behaviors of others, but tends to autoassolvere those who preach him, just remind us honestly that the current crisis occurred after a decade marked by the flowering of speeches on the ethics of business and finance and adoption of ethical codes of practice.

This tells us that the ethical dimension of economics and finance is not something incidental and formal, but essential. It is born from within that framework. Ethics in fact always expresses a culture and anthropology. In other words, to set a specific area of \u200b\u200bsociety need to field the question about man and his being in relationship. Speaking to an "arm" of weeks ago, the Holy Father identified nell'avarizia idolizes fundamental error that led to the crisis. He was referring to the experience of human frailty that reason is "obscured" and will "curve" from their self-interest, so you do not see the dangers of the route you are following and, in time of crisis, no one knows find the way out. The crisis has thus

precise anthropological and cultural roots.

So, work and above all, the subject of work continues to really be the "key social issue." All find that they are negative, because the financial crisis has erased many jobs and never ceases to put them in danger, but they are primarily positive, because the work and the subject labor express man's being "for" and "with" the others, who alone can achieve sustainable exit from poverty and insecurity.

Perhaps few are willing to believe that, even under strenuous circumstances of the present, the crucial issue is the meaning of work for a single person. In particular, the fact that the work is "for" and "with" others. Proves this, albeit negative, the financial crisis. It is "lent" and "borrowed" within a framework of anonymous transactions were seen as temporary, trusting in the market as an escape route, they were their own business "in freedom", in the absence of stable ties. Well, now we have the proof that the "freedom" financial risks of buying and selling on markets anonymous, unattached, it was really fatal: not having chosen who to trust, one is at the mercy of a mechanism is inherently unstable.

To overcome the crisis, therefore, we need to rebuild ties, "real" and financial, to mobilize the energy and dynamism of human labor. We need jobs and finance "creative", but in the sense of the word: who look to the future, which are expressed in terms tend to be durable, capable of withstanding the uncertainty of tomorrow, who can see opportunities that actually generate wealth and welfare .
In this daily work of those individuals and communities, the G-8 governments and international institutions can provide important support: support interventions temporary return to the people the opportunity to share, and social reforms that are not enemies of freedom, but helping to foster the building from the bottom of ties "good" and "right". In the construction of renewed ties remain strong and progressive in their institution (businesses, government, market) all will necessarily be provisional. For this reason, it should give a decisive importance to the educational work to make progress, to innovate must be taught, there will be no innovation without education will not be left to the center of the concerns of persons, families, intermediate associations, civil society as a whole, then the State itself and all the supranational institutions.
No strategy, in fact, can never be enough by itself to generate a radical and definitive solution to the problems of the crisis. But no one - particularly the governments of major countries - will pull back from work to find solutions at least temporarily. Why it is essential immediately invest adequate resources to promote a virtuous circle of innovation, culture and education.

The author is Patriarch of Venice

Circolo San Bernardino

Tuesday, June 2, 2009

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The Sleep of Reason Produces crisis

Angelo Scola

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