The Lumen Christi Institute is organizing a panel discussion on automation, work and CST. The event, scheduled for April 29, and co-presented with CREDO, will host Edward Hadas (Blackfriars Hall, Oxford University), Christos Makridis (National Artificial Intelligence Institute), and Luis Valenzuela (Austral University of Chile; CREDO member). It will be boderated by William R. Hauk Jr.…
What a difference a year makes. At the time of the last newsletter, there was no way I would have imagined how much the world and the economy would change in the coming months. It’s been difficult. Many people have suffered illness, death, the loss of loved ones and jobs, and had their home and…
Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI articulated the demands placed upon us by our obligation to the vulnerable in our midst: “Jesus taught his disciples to pray by asking the Heavenly Father not for “my” but for “our” daily bread. Thus, he desired every person to feel co‐responsible for his brothers so that no one would want…
If you’ve heard of economist Julian Simon before, it is likely because he came up with the idea of vouchers as a solution to airline overbooking (Simon 1968), or won a famous bet against biologist Paul Ehrlich (Sabin 2013). However, Simon should be of special interest to Catholic economists since the lion’s share of his…
At the time of writing, close to 7 million cases of coronavirus infections have been identified globally. The actual number of people infected is likely a multiple of those estimates given lack of widespread testing in many countries and the fact that many individuals with the virus are asymptomatic. The official number of deaths from…
CREDO economists, along with other scholars, discussed and debated the best policies in light of the COVID-19 pandemic in two separate panels. On May 5, 2020, amidst lockdowns in many areas Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde (University of Pennsylvania) and Casey Mulligan (University of Chicago) discussed the economic and social costs and consequences of the lockdown. On June…