The Role of Public Confidence in European Union Economic Affairs. Some Considerations on the Civil Economy in Contrast to Neoclassical Political Economy and Social Market Economy

The subject of the paper is to study Genovesi’s theory of public confidence, to bring out the voice of those scholars who support the paradigm of the civil economy in contrast with those of political economy and social market economy, underlining the importance of the so-called homo reciprocans in a market economy aiming at the realization of good civil life, applying these concepts in the economic affairs of the European Union.