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Toward a Moral Economy: Policies and Values for the 21st Century

May 31, 2012
Ida Noyes Hall, Max Palevsky Cinema
1212 E 59th St.
Chicago, IL 60637
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Keynote Address: Reinhard Cardinal Marx, Archbishop of Munich

Presentations: Roger Myerson, University of Chicago,
Kevin M. Murphy, University of Chicago,
and Russell Hittinger, University of Tulsa

This event opens the Fourth Lumen Christi Institute Conference on Economics and Catholic Social Thought and inaugurates the Institute Collaboration with the German-American Colloquium of the Katholische Sozialwissenschaftliche Zentralstelle.

Co-sponsored by the Katholische Sozialwissenschaftliche Zentralstelle and The John U. Nef Committee on Social Thought

As the United States and the global economy continue to reel from the effects of the 2008 financial crisis, we face several questions:

  • What went wrong?
  • How to prevent another such crisis?
  • Can there be moral responsibility in a globalized economy?
  • What would a moral economy look like?