CREDo will like to share with you an invitation to participate in the first International Conference on Finance for the Common Good on August 8-10, 2024, in Dayton, OH. This conference is a collaboration between The Department of Economics & Finance at the University of Dayton and the University of Economics & Social Sciences in…
CREDO is hosting three events this upcoming ASSA meeting. You can find the details below. We hope to see you there! Saturday, January 6 – 8:00 AM – 10:00 AM (CST) Paper Session: Economics for the Vulnerable (O1) Place: Convention Center, 222 Chair: Jeanne Lafortune, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile Sunday, January 7 – 9:15 AM…
Date: June 30 to July 1, 2023 Location: Leuven, Belgium The conference focuses on the dialogue between the disciplines of economics, philosophy, and Christian theology. The conference will provide an opportunity to engage with and learn from a diverse group of global leading thinkers in these, and other, disciplines. Motivated by a widely documented anthropological…
We would like to share with you a new Call for Papers for the conference titled “Economics for the Common Good: The Work of Christian Economists“. It is being organized by the Association of Christian Economists and the Department of Economics and Business at Hope College, United States. Submissions are due January 15th 2023. Several…
A keynote talk from Bishop Oscar Cantu of Las Cruces headlined the discussion of the family and its role in the economy on April 30 and May 1, as economists, bishops, and other scholars gather in Chicago for the Lumen Christi Institute’s 7th annual Conference on Economics and Catholic Social Thought. The theme, “The Family and the Changing Economy”, was quite timely, falling squarely between the two October meetings of the 2014-15 Synod of Bishops on the Family.
The public event was opened by Blase Cupich, Archbishop of Chicago, and involved responses by CREDO economists Valerie Ramey (UC-San Diego) and William Evans (Notre Dame), as well Pierre-Andre Chiappori (Columbia), a noted expert on the economics of the family, and Christine Firer Hinze (Fordham), a social ethicist focusing on the family. …
The 6th Annual Lumen Christi Conference on Economics and Catholic Social Thought provoked a thoughtful discussion on conceptions of the human person within economics and theology, and CREDO members played an instrumental role in the conference. CREDO’s own Mary Hirschfeld (Villanova) gave the keynote address at the conference on April 1 at the University of Chicago, and she was joined by fellow CREDO member Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde (Penn), as well as Francis Cardinal George of Chicago, economist Rachel Kranton (Duke), and philosopher Russell Hittinger (Tulsa).
Cardinal George, in his last conference as acting Archbishop of Chicago, opened the event by emphasizing the importance of conversation between economists and bishops. He noted that past conversations were often difficult because of different anthropologies. …
Welcome to the second issue of our CREDO newsletter. A great deal has happened since our last issue.
In the spring, Thomas Piketty’s book, Capital in the 21st Century became a New York Times bestseller, creating excitement, controversy and much discussion in the economics community but probably more so in the Church, media, and broader society. The focus of the book is, of course, wealth and income inequality, and we have decided to give some focus to the issue in the current issue. CREDO vice-president Jesus Fernandez Villaverde has contributed a thoughtful review of the book…
Non-economists often falsely assume that homo economicus is somehow isomorphic with homo avidus, greedy man. The charge is unfair and confuses pursuit of the goods one desire with pursuit of narrow self-interest. Although the charge is unfair, it does capture some real reasons to be uneasy with the economic approach to the human person. The difficulty can best be seen by considering the alternative view of the human person we find in Catholic thought. The sketch that follows derives from Thomas Aquinas, whose thought is central to the Catholic approach. …