Simona Beretta

Simona Beretta è professore ordinario di Politica Economica presso la Facoltà di Scienze Politiche e Sociali della Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore dove insegna Politiche Economiche Internazionali e Economia Internazionale Moneta e Finanza.

Laureata nel 1978 presso la Facoltà di Economia e Commercio dell''Università Cattolica, nel 1981 ha conseguito il M.Sc. in Economics presso la London School of Economics and Political Science e dal 1988 al 1991 ha insegnato Economia politica presso l'Università degli Studi di Parma. Direttore del Master in International Cooperation and Development, ASERI e membro del Comitato Direttivo di ASERI, è anche Senior Researcher presso il Centro di Ricerche in Science Cognitive e della Comunicazione, CSCC (integrazione internazionale e finanza) e Direttrice del Centro di Ateneo per la Dottrina Sociale della Chiesa. Le sue attività di ricerca tendono a esplorare il nesso persona-economia-politiche e pratiche, con riferimento a temi quali il contrasto alla povertà, il potenziale trasformativo delle pratiche di accompagnamento delle persone vulnerabili, l’integrazione internazionale, il buon funzionamento del sistema finanziario.

Membro del Comitato di Redazione della Rivista Internazionale di Scienze Sociali, è Convener del Fetzer Advisory Board on the Social Sciences presso il Fetzer Institute, Kalamazoo (MI), USA ed è stata Consultore del Pontificio Consiglio della Giustizia e della Pace dal 2004 al 2016. Attualmente è Membro della Social Affair Commission, COMECE, Bruxelles e Membro del Consiglio di Amministrazione della Veneranda Fabbrica del Duomo di Milano.

Author's titles

Introduction The Economy of Francesco: A Process More Than an Event digital

by Simona Beretta, Mario A. Maggioni

Year: 2021

This introductory paper explains why the Economy of Francesco (EoF) is a relevant topic for a special issue of Rivista Internazionale di Scienze Sociali/Research In Social Sciences, in terms of its quantitative relevance, the innovativeness of the method, the average age of the actors involved, and its interdisciplinary scope...

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RIVISTA INTERNAZIONALE DI SCIENZE SOCIALI - 2020 - 4. A Special Issue on Common Good digital

by Simona Beretta, Mathias Nebel

Year: 2020

Quarto fascicolo del 2020

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Introduction digital

by Simona Beretta, Mathias Nebel

Year: 2020

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Growing up in Africa: Age and Pro-Social Attitudes in Primary Schoolchildren in Goma (DRC) digital

by Sara Balestri, Simona Beretta, Mario A. Maggioni, Domenico Rossignoli

Year: 2017

While an extensive literature based on analysis conducted in developed countries shows that primary school children develop prosocial attitudes as they grow older, with school acting as the main driver of the socialisation process, there is little evidence of what may happen in very different socio-cultural and economic context...

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Life’s About Change. How Relations Transform Individual Attitudes, Choices and Behaviors digital

by Simona Beretta, Mario A. Maggioni

Year: 2017

Searching for escapes from the ‘‘algorithmic cage’’ of homo economicus, experimental and behavioral economics appear as a step towards the ‘‘whole breadth of reason’’ highlighting the role of interpersonal relation in human decisions and actions. We explore how individual choices, attitudes and traits change over a congruous period of time, due to exposure to an intense relational experience within a caring community...

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‘‘The whole breadth of reason’’: a step towards rethinking economics and rationality digital

by Simona Beretta, Mario A. Maggioni

Year: 2012

The paper, which acts as an introduction to the Special Issue devoted to ‘‘The whole breadth of reason’’, addresses the topic of economic rationality and discusses its strengths and weaknesses within an interdisciplinary perspective highlighting the relational dimension of agents and actions. Exiting the cage of homo economicus, we critically discuss both behavioral economics and neuro economics approaches, showing that they are not immune from limitations due to both dubious technical procedures and fragile epistemological foundations. When taking rational decision under structural uncertainty, human beings rely on default practices which are inherently developed and dynamically adapted within a community of concrete individuals; they also tend to provide persuasive justification of one’s belief to other people. The paper concludes that rationality is a powerful tool, within a relational, dynamic, realistic and ‘whole’ anthropology.

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Back to the future? Georg Simmel and C.S. Lewis revisited digital

by Simona Beretta, Mario A. Maggioni

Year: 2012

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Quale programma per lo sviluppo? Una nota a partire dalla dottrina sociale della Chiesa digital

by Simona Beretta

Year: 2006

Catholic Social Teaching expresses the paradoxical claim that the Church «offers her first contribution to the solution of the urgent problem of development when she proclaims the truth about Christ, about herself and about man» (SRS, 41). This note discusses its implication for development programming, with reference to the Millennium Development Goals and to some consensus principles: quantitative targets, ownership, comprehensiveness and empowerment. Applying the two core principles of CST, namely personal dignity of each human being and ontological unity of the human family, the paper poses some questions about how to conceive development programming and how to effectively achieve the desired development outcome, caring about the process of getting there. This points to the need of providing not just for innovative instruments for development financing but also for institutional conditions that facilitate personal initiative and commitment to practical and concrete love for every human being.

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"World Trade Organization": Italia ed Europa nel nuovo assetto globale digital