No hace falta ser ni Papa ni profeta para darse cuenta de lo que estaba pasando con la burbuja económica. Pero mis amigos anglosajones muestran orgullosísimos un discurso del cardenal Joseph Ratzinger titulado "Market Economy and Ethics" pronunciado en 1985 durante un congreso sobre Iglesia y Economía en el que "vaticinaba" lo que ahora estamos viendo.
Más que la profecía, es interesante el análisis que Ratzinger hizo de por qué iba a explotar el sistema financiero. Un análisis que podríamos bautizar como "la ley Ratzinger": si se intenta solucionar un problema económico sin tener en cuenta la raíz ética del problema, se empeorará el problema.
Ahí van dos frases del discurso; y luego, el discurso completo.
- We can no longer regard so naively the liberal-capitalistic system (even with all the corrections it has since received) as the salvation of the world.
- It is becoming an increasingly obvious fact of economic history that the development of economic systems which concentrate on the common good depends on a determinate ethical system, which in turn can be born and sustained only by strong religious convictions. 9 Conversely, it has also become obvious that the decline of such discipline can actually cause the laws of the market to collapse. An economic policy that is ordered not only to the good of the group — indeed, not only to the common good of a determinate state — but to the common good of the family of man demands a maximum of ethical discipline and thus a maximum of religious strength.
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