A "gung-ho" Approach Towards Sophic Economy

Abstract

The object of this study has been the  Sophic Economy of Sergei Bulgakov – an  alternative and valuable philosophical-economic  doctrine. At the beginning,  facts-examples have been identified in a  contemporary, social and purposely localized  context (contemporary Italian society),  demonstrating a certain potential sensibility  towards the idea of Sophic Economy. Then,  Bulgakov’s thought has been expounded  with a purposeful tone instead of the  critical-purposeful frame originally used by  Bulgakov himself in the volume Philosophy  of Economy: the world as household.  The quality of the examined content has  raised the simple question, What about the  dynamics of the diffusion of ideas like these?  Employing what I call the "gung-ho" approach  – the researcher’s imagination as a historical  technique method that does not integrate  the facts of the past but places them in a  sort of laboratory-simulative environment  model – the idea of Sophic Economy has  been inserted in NetLogo’s Spreading Utopian Ideas Model. The popularization of  an alternative philosophical doctrine and the  proposal-experiment of an original method of  historical research in Economics have been  the main results of the present study.