ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on an application of the Civil Economy's perspective in a field of great importance for Values-Based Organizations (VBOs): the socio-economic sphere of health care that is becoming more and more crucial both for civil life and economy. It presents one recent attempt of economic theory to explain how it could be possible to somehow hold together these two dimensions: market and vocations a theoretical attempt that is not entirely convincing even if deserves to be known and analyzed. There is general concern today with the arrival of market mechanisms into new spheres very relevant from the point of view of relationships and motivations. Nowadays, care services which in the past used to be provided by families, communities, churches have become increasingly supplied by the market and by paid workers. The chapter explores a general theoretical discourse on the caring relationship adopting the Civil Economy's perspective.
