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Podcast: MCC Podcast
Episode: Profit or the common good? A Christian social teaching perspective on the role of business (Huub Ruel and Bruno Bobone)
Description: Crisis situations such as the current war in Ukraine, the COVID-19 pandemic and the global challenges such as wealth inequality and climate change put the finger on the question: what is the role of business in societies? Is it to make profit or is it to serve the common good? It may seem that the profit-driven focus and the common-good focus exclude each other, but do they? Looking at the role of business from a Catholic Social Teaching and a Christian Social Values perspective, profit and the common-good seem to coincide. How does that work? In this MCC podcast...