Money and the Good Life: a lunchtime discussion with Mary Hirschfeld
Open to current students and faculty. Box lunches will be served. To inquire about registration, please email info@lumenchristi.org. In 2018, Mary Hirschfeld, economist and theologian, made a landmark intervention in the relationship between economics and theology. By locating the source of economic life in the search for human happiness, Hirschfeld used a Thomistic framework to approach modern problems. Join us for a lunch discussion on how we might move “Toward a Humane Economy.” Prof. Hirschfeld will also give a lecture later in the day on “Rethinking Economic Inequality: a Theological Perspective.” A response will follow from Amir Sufi (Booth School…
Rethinking Economic Inequality: a Theological Perspective
This event is free and open to the public. For more information, contact info@lumenchristi.org. This event is co-presented by the Catholic Research Economists Discussion Organization (CREDO) and cosponsored by the In Lumine Network and Catholics at Booth. This event is made possible through the support of ‘In Lumine: Supporting the Catholic Intellectual Tradition on Campuses Nationwide’ (Grant #62372) from the John Templeton Foundation. Secular discourse about the problem of economic inequality rests on two foundational premises that are problematic from a theological point of view. First, individuals enter into society with the aim of bettering their own condition. Second, bettering one’s own…
From ESG to Impact Investing: Catholic reflections from the field
Registration required. Open to students and faculty only. Email info@lumenchristi.org to inquire about registration. Should business and finance play larger roles in resolving the great social and environmental challenges of our time? Proponents of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investing say yes. They argue that ESG financial strategies can help reverse runaway carbon emissions and fix income and gender inequalities, among other ills. ESG-integrated investments already encompass more than $120 trillion in financial assets. Are they working as promised? If not, how can they be improved? In his new book Sustainable, Terrence Keeley, a finance-industry veteran offers an insider’s look at the promises, prospects,…
Catholic Culture Series on “A Catholic Vision of the Person and the World”
The Lumen Christi Institute’s West Suburban Catholic Culture Series returns in 2023 with a monthly series on the theme of “A Catholic Vision of the Person and the World.” REGISTER HERE THEME | In a 1965 address to the United Nations General Assembly, Pope Paul VI described the Catholic Church as “an expert in humanity.” The Church could teach the U.N. because the Church understood human hearts and human institutions. Bishop Robert Barron has explained the pope’s words in the following manner: “The Church has two thousand years of watching the human condition unfold – two thousand years of saints and sinners,…
Lunch Discussion with Sally Blount: “Faith, Markets, and Meaning”
This event is co-presented by the Lumen Christi Institute and Catholics at Booth. Registration required. Open to students and faculty only. Email m.lechevallier@lumenchristi.org to inquire about registration. According to the Edelman Trust Barometer, business firms have become the only “trusted” social Institution. Simultaneously, there has been a growing drumbeat around corporate “purpose” over the last 10 years – with companies writing ever more expansive purpose statements about how their firms “improve the world,” “make lives more joyful,” and “create meaningful community.” Yet, business leaders have little training in moral philosophy or religion; markets systems are not inherently wise, kind, or fair….
Getting to the Practical: Economics, Decision Making, and the Virtues in Catholic Thought
This event is co-presented by the Lumen Christi Institute and Catholics at Booth. Open to students, staff, and faculty. Email m.lechevallier@lumenchristi.org to inquire about registration. This lunch discussion will be held at the Charles M. Harper Center. This event is made possible through the support of ‘In Lumine: Supporting the Catholic Intellectual Tradition on Campuses Nationwide’ (Grant #62372) from the John Templeton Foundation. We often think of the virtues as moral dispositions or ethical values. In Catholic thought, the virtues have a more mundane function, however. They are practical, decision-making habits for uncertain environments. When we appreciate the practical nature of virtue,…
The Rise of Artificial Intelligence: Economic, Social, and Spiritual Challenges.
The Lumen Christi Institute is a proud co-sponsor of the 2024 Catholic Research Economist Discussion Organization (CREDO) keynote lecture with Anton Korinek, Professor at the University of Virginia, in the Department of Economics and the Darden School of Business. His talk is titled “The Rise of Artificial Intelligence: Economic, Social, and Spiritual Challenges.” This is an online event on Zoom, open to the public, but aimed at a specialist audience. If you are interested in registering, please contact us at info@lumenchristi.org About the Speaker In addition to his work at the University of Virginia, Anton is a Nonresident Fellow at the Brookings Institution, a…
An Inquiry into the Value of Work: A Discussion of Matt Crawford’s Shop Class as Soulcraft
REGISTER HERE 5:30 Cocktail and Hors d’Oeuvres | 6:30 Opening Remarks | 6:45 Dialogue and Q&A | 7:30 End Through the generosity of LCI’s donors, undergraduate and graduate students are able to attend this event for free. Interested students should email Marial Corona at mcorona@lumenchristi.org to register. This event is cosponsored at The Point Magazine. Published in 2009, Matthew Crawford’s Shop Class as Soulcraft became an unexpected best-seller. Written by a University of Chicago PhD and motorcycle mechanic, the book explored the value of craftsmanship and manual work in a world increasingly dominated by technology and abstract thinking. Drawing on his own experiences as…
Economics and Catholic Social Thought Virtual Workshop, 2023-2024
In partnership with CREDO, the Lumen Christi Institute is cosponsoring a monthly Economics and Catholic Social Thought Virtual Workshop. The interdisciplinary workshop will take place online the second Friday of each month and feature papers addressing the intersecting domains of Economics and Catholic Social Thought. We welcome all papers on this interdisciplinary boundary. Since the primary audience for the seminar is economists interested in exploring these questions, we give somewhat greater weight to papers written or co-written by economists, and to papers written by scholars of any discipline with an audience of economists in mind. The seminar is open to…
Forming the Leaders of Tomorrow at Booth School of Business
Financial markets have an outsized role in shaping the world in which we live. With so much at stake, how can investors integrate morals and economics? What are the creative solutions Catholic business leaders can apply to the problems of today’s world, to do good? To confront these questions, the Lumen Christi Institute brought top thought leaders from around the country to the Booth School of Business at the heart of the University of Chicago’s campus. Business ethics has become a major focus in recent years, in large part due to growing concern over unethical practices and contemporary critiques…