Seminar on "Economics and Catholic Social Thought"
From May 22 to 26, 2017, a Seminar on Economics and Catholic Social Thought took place, on the iniciative of Markets, Culture & Ethics Research Center and in collaboration with the Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture and the Catholic Research Economists Discussion Organization.
Participants covered foundational principles in Catholic social thought starting with the human person, dignity, freedom, subsidiarity, solidarity, and the common good, and moving toward applications of these principles to conceptual understandings and ethical considerations involving economic topics such as utility theory, firm and business ethics, wages, markets, globalization, poverty, and development.
