Ampliar la racionalidad económica. Teoría económica y ética a la luz de Caritas in veritate

Abstract

The pope Benedict XVI propose in Caritas in veritate to broaden the concept of reason. In view of the seriousness of the social question, especially at global level, that became an anthropolical question, it needs to broaden the concept of economic rationality. It is posible a dialogue between economics, ethics and theology? This paper explore some anthropological suppositions of economy theory by N. G. Mankiw, the concept of homo economicus, his economic's rationality. R. González F. critizes from ethics the homo economicus moral. In view of a complex scarcity, its means scarcity of economics goods and scarcity of moral goods, the person needs a complex rationality. The ethics is essential in the economics decisions. The Holy Father in Caritas in veritate wants to illuminate the economy with the theological anthropology and with a personalist ethics. He propose to broaden the concept of economic rationality, he point out a logic of gratuitousness that complement with a logic of market. Thus the complex of this rationalities in the economy makes necessary to do a interdisciplinary dialogue at human service. The University is the place to do this dialogue.