The European SPES together with the Sophia University Institute —the higher education body of the Focolare movement—organized an international conference in April 22–23, 2016 in Loppiano (Florence).
The theme of the conference was “Vulnerability and Gift in Economics and Business”.
Issues discussed in the conference included:
Empirical/lab evidence about the role of vulnerability in economic, organizational, and social interactions
Historical and philosophical reasons behind the expulsion of vulnerability and/or gift from economics and social sciences
Gift and trust in business organizations, and subsidiarity and vulnerability in the governance of organizations
Theories and models of vulnerability in interactions and theological explanations for the absence of gift in economic and social theories.