Lately, Jesús Fernández-Villaverde has been looking in detail at the accelerating pace of global demographic changes. He wrote three essays, originally published in Spanish the El Confidencial newspaper, that have been adapted for a English-speaking audience.. The Demographic Future of Humanity: The Trends (Part I) [link] The Demographic Future of Humanity: Economic Challenges (Part II)…
Now in its fifth year, this seminar is designed as an introduction and immersion into Catholic social thought for graduate students and junior faculty in economics, finance, or related fields. Participants will cover foundational principles in Catholic social thought, starting with the human person, dignity, freedom, subsidiarity, solidarity, and the common good, and moving toward…
I am grateful for the opportunity to offer some reflections about the “Social Gospel”, that is, Catholic social teachings that we hold so dear, and Pope Francis’ particular call for inclusion. I believe this topic is of great significance for many reasons, not least of which because we are living in a “window of opportunity”.…
CREDO, the Global Catholic Education Project, and the Lumen Christi Institute are launching a new working paper series on Values, Economics, and Catholic Social Thought. While the series is expected to have a broad focus on economic analysis and reasoning, researchers and practitioners from other social sciences as well as philosophy and theology are encouraged…
Dear reader, I am greatly honored, upon the invitation by the President of Catholic Research Economists Development Organization (CREDO), Prof. Joseph Kaboski, to contribute my ideas and realities to CREDO. This is my second year as Bishop in a diocese located in Eastern Uganda, a third world and agrarian economy! I shall try to give…
After a successful first series of workshops, CREDO, in partnership with the Lumen Christi Institute, will run a second series of monthly invite-only CREDO Economics and Catholic Social Thought Virtual Workshop. The interdisciplinary workshop will take place online the first Friday of each month and feature papers addressing the intersecting domains of Economics and Catholic…
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.…
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…
Between February and May, the U.S. labor market lost nearly 20 million jobs. This unprecedented decline in economic activity was fueled by the many stay-at-home directives imposed in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. As of May, the unemployment rate stood at 13.3%, a sharp increase from its 3.5% rate in February and, despite a decline…