Symposium on Caritas in Veritate
Published upon the heels of the global financial collapse of 2008, Benedict XVI’s social encyclical, Caritas in Veritate, has been received with great controversy in America. Conservatives have criticized the encyclical’s indictment of neoliberal policies while progressives have severed the encyclical’s social concerns from their origin in the sanctity of human life. This panel discussion of Caritas in Veritate will consider the encyclical in light of the tradition of Catholic social teaching, the political difficulties facing economic reform, and the challenge of inter-religious dialogue.
“Decision-Making in the Pressure Cooker: Lessons Learned from the Collapse of Lehman Brothers”
Presented by the Lumen Christi Institute and the Catholic Lawyers Guild, sponsored by Jenner & Block. panelists: Harry Kraemer (executive partner with Madison Dearborn) Anton Valukas (Chairman of Jenner & Block and former United States Attorney) Luigi Zingales (Robert C. McCormack Professor of Entrepreneurship and Finance at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business)
Toward a Moral Economy: Policies and Values for the 21st Century
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…
“The Dialogue of Economics and Catholic Social Thought”
Cosponsored by the University of Chicago Ethics Club The presence of two Catholic candidates for vice-president have raised questions about Catholic social thought and American free market economics. In this symposium, an economist and a theologian consider how the Church’s teaching bears on contemporary economic questions. The questions to be explored will include: What does the Catholic social thought developed by popes from Leo XIII and Pius XI to John Paul II and Benedict XVI say about economic issues? How can economists engage the principles of Catholic Social Thought and reflect on questions such as the just wage, social solidarity and the market…
Toward A Moral Economy: Globalization and the Developing World
Part of the Lumen Christi Institute Program in Economics and Catholic Social Thought, a continuing exchange between research economists, bishops, and scholars, this symposium will address poverty and economic development; social, cultural, and economic integration; and emigration and its impact on developing countries. Keynote address: Peter Cardinal Turkson, President of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace Presentations by: Robert Lucas, University of Chicago Economics Department Luigi Zingales, University of Chicago Booth School of Business Joseph Kaboski, University of Notre Dame Economics Department Sponsored by The Lumen Christi Institute at the University of Chicago, the John U. Nef Committee on Social Thought at the University…
The Human Person, Economics & Catholic Social Thought
“The current financial crisis can make us overlook the fact that it originated in a profound human crisis: the denial of the primacy of the human person!” – Pope Francis, Evangelii Gaudium The human person is a contested terrain. Within the fields of Economics and Catholic Social Thought, each maintain distinct conceptions of and emphases on the human person that impact their respective diagnoses of contemporary crises and proposed solutions. Drawing together economists, bishops and scholars, this symposium will explore fundamental convergences and divergences in the conception of the human person in Economics and Catholic Social Thought. This program is part…
Caring for our Common Home: Economics, Environment, & Catholic Social Thought
THURSDAY, MAY 19 The International House at The University of Chicago Public Symposium Archbishop Thomas G. Wenski, Archbishop of Miami Christopher Barrett, Cornell University Mary Evelyn Tucker, Yale University Michael Greenstone, The University of Chicago V. Ramanathan, The University of California, San Diego FRIDAY, MAY 20 The Hilton Chicago/Magnificent Mile Suites SESSION I: The Current State of Environmental Degradation and its Impact on the Most Vulnerable Richard Carson, The University of California, San Diego Christopher Barrett, Cornell University SESSION II: Catholic Social Teaching on the Environment Jame Schaefer, Marquette University David Cloutier, Mount St. Mary’s University Session III: Practical Responses to the Problem Geoffrey Heal, Columbia University Mark Jacobsen, The…
Judging as Judgment
You can subscribe to the Lumen Christi Institute Podcast via our Soundcloud page, iTunes channel, Stitcher, TuneIn, ListenNotes, Podbean, Pocket Casts, and Google Play Music. To view photos of the event, visit Lumen Christi’s Facebook page. Free and open to the public. Registration is required. Cosponsored by the Catholic Lawyers Guild of Chicago, the Decalogue Society of Lawyers, the Christian Legal Society, the Jewish Judges Association, and Jenner & Block LLP. When a case is easy, judges can act like umpires. But when a case is hard, judges cannot simply apply the rules – they have to exercise judgment. We pretend that judges don’t make law in order to…
Financial Markets and Moral Inquiry
Listen to these events as podcast episodes. You can subscribe to the Lumen Christi Institute Podcast via our Soundcloud page, iTunes channel, Stitcher, TuneIn, ListenNotes, Podbean, Pocket Casts, and Google Play Music. To view photos of the symposium, visit Lumen Christi’s Facebook page. To read the National Catholic Reporter‘s coverage of the public symposium, click here. Free and open to the public. Cosponsored by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development and Committee on International Justice and Peace, Catholics at Booth, and the Catholic Students Association. This event is made possible in part by a grant from the Our Sunday Visitor Institute….
CANCELED: The Economy of Pope Francis
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Due to restrictions put in place in response to the spread of COVID-19, this event has been postponed. We look forward to scheduling similar programming in the future. Does this “economy kill?” Pope Francis denounces “throw-away cultures” and “economies of exclusion and inequality.” Does Pope Francis’s thought on the economy reduce to a Jeremiad? How does his economic vision align with or diverge from the teachings of recent other popes on the economy? How might his critiques be compatible with or improve upon a free-market economy and work towards greater human flourishing? Join for a discussion between international economists and a…