Christianity and Economics: Integrating Faith and Learning in Economic Scholarship

Thursday, November 7

11:00 to 12:30 p.m.

Registration, fifth floor of HCB

12:30 to 12:45 p.m.

Official Welcome, HCB 510

12:45 to 2:00 p.m.

Plenary Session 1

• David Gushee, Graves Professor of Moral Philosophy, Union University: God and Mammon: An Inquiry into the Economic Ethics of Jesus

2:00 to 2:15 p.m.

Break

2:15 to 3:45 p.m

Concurrent Session 1

1A Distributive Justice—Panel 1

• Barry Harvey, Assistant Professor of Theology, Honors College, Baylor University: Can These Bones Live? Church, Market and the Dismembering of the Body
• Kenneth Wolfgang Lahners, Doctoral Student in Religion, Baylor University: His Horse-Hoofs Go Before You: G.K. Chesterton and William Cobbett
• Richard Stanford, David C. Grant Professor of Economics, Furman University: The Economic and Theological Implications of Deservedness

1B Neoclassical Critique—Panel 1

• George Monsma, Professor of Economics, Calvin College: Christian Faith and Neoclassical Economics: Clashing Worldviews
• Andrew Samuel, Doctoral Student in Economics, Boston College: Ethics within Economics
• Jonathan E. Leightner, Associate Professor of Economics, Augusta State University: Utility Versus Self-Sacrificing Love
  

1C Author Book Presentation

• Jennifer Roback Morse, Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution: Love and Economics: Why the Laissez-Faire Family Doesn't Work (Spence Publishing Company, 2001)

1D Public Education

• Catherine Ruth Pakaluk, Doctoral Student in Economics, Harvard University: Parents as Primary Educators and the Principal-Agent Problem in Education: A Case Study in the Application of Christian Social Teaching
• Marshall Fritz, Executive Director, Alliance for Separation of School and State: Politics and Education Don't Mix
• R. Dean Davenport, Doctoral Student in Church-State Studies, Baylor University: Robert Lewis Dabney: A Theologian's Objections to Public Education

1E Ecology and the Environment—Panel 1

• Tracy Miller, Associate Professor of Economics, Grove City College: Property Rights and Environmental Stewardship: Towards a Christian Perspective
• Thomas Dunlap, Professor of History, Texas A&M University: The Christian Roots of Environmentalism

1G The Binary Economics of Louis Kelso

• William Gish, Psychologist, Metropolitan Development Center: The Remarkable Insight of Louis O. Kelso into Economic and Social Justice
• Robert Ashford, Professor of Law, Syracuse University College of Law: Using Christian Principles to Enhance Economic Theory and Practice: Binary Economics

3:45 to 4:00 p.m.

Break

4:00 to 5:30 p.m.

Concurrent Session 2

2A Christianity and Austrian Economics

• Thomas E. Woods, Department of History, Suffolk College: Catholic Social Teaching and Economic Law: The Unresolved Tension
• Shawn Ritenour, Assistant Professor of Economics, Grove City College: Praxeology as a Christian Economics
• Jeffrey Herbener, Professor of Economics, Grove City College: Praxeology as a Christian Method of the Social Sciences

2B Methodology and Economics—Panel 1

• Gary Scott, Department of Economics, St. Mary's University: How Does Positivism Affect Objectivity in Economics?
• Patrick Welch, Professor of Economics, St. Louis University: The Relationships of Religion to Economics
• David Wetzell, Professor of Economics, Universidad de la Americas, Puebla, Mexico: On the Strengths and Weaknesses of the Neo-Classical Paradigm: A Neo-Knightian Critique

2C Author Book Presentation

• A. J. Conyers, Professor of Theology, Baylor University: The Long Truce : How Toleration Made the World Safe for Power and Profit (Spence Publishing Company, 2001)

2D Legal Issues and Controversies

• Michael A. Scaperlanda, Edwards Family Chair in Law, University of Oklahoma College of Law: Immigration, Membership, and Community: A Personalist Perspective
• Paul Knepper, Professor of Social Work and Criminal Justice, East Carolina University: The Economist, the Rabbis, and Crime
• Kevin Lee, Doctoral Student in Theology, Divinity School of the University of Chicago: The Good Life: A Catholic Perspective on the Economic Analysis of Law

2E Globalization

• John Sniegocki, Professor of Theology, Xavier University: Catholic Social Teaching and Critics of Neoliberal Globalization
• Laura Fitzpatrick, Associate Professor of Economics, Rockhurst University: Catholic Social Teaching and Hunger: Sharing the Fruits of the Earth
• Joseph P. Daniels, Professor of Economics, Marquette University
• Marc von der Ruhr, Professor of Economics, St. Norbert College: Religion and Individual Global Policy Preferences

2F Economic Perspectives of Orthodox Christianity

• Stella Hofrenning, Assistant Professor of Economics, Augsburg College: Greek Orthodox Perspectives on Economics
• Nikolas Gvosdev, Associate Director of the Institute of Church-State Studies, Baylor University
• Daniel Payne, Doctoral Student in Church-State Studies, Baylor University: The Christian Socialism of Fr. Sergeii Bulgakov: Toward an Orthodox Political Economy

2G Economics and Theology

• Christian Weber, Associate Professor of Economics, Seattle University: Economic Thinking for the Theologically Minded: A Review Essay
• Francis Woehrling, Advisor to Commission European Union (retired, European Commission): Human Scarcity Minimization as Instrument of Divine Creation
• Giacomo Costa, Professor of Monetary Economics, Facolta di Scienze Politiche, Univ. of Pisa: The Economic Theology of the Lord's Prayer

2H Business Ethics

• Phillip Thompson, Director, Center for Ethics and Leadership, St. Edward's University: John Paul II and Jack Welch: An Analysis of Two Catholics and Their Different Ethical Visions
• J.-Robert Ouimet, President and Chief Executive Officer, Ouimet-Cordon Bleu Inc.: Reconciliation of Human Happiness And Business Profitability : IT CAN BE DONE!

5:30 to 6:30 p.m.

Free time / Late Registration

6:30 to 8:00 p.m.

Keynote Banquet

8:00 to 9:30 p.m.

Keynote Address

• George Marsden, McAnaney Professor of History, University of Notre Dame: Faith-Informed Scholarship: Some First Principles
  

9:30 p.m.

Reception

Friday, November 8

8:30-10:00 a.m.

Concurrent Session 3

3A Reflections on Adam Smith

• James Halteman, Hendrickson Professor of Business/Economics, Wheaton College: Moral Reflections on Economics: Can Alasdair MacIntyre and Adam Smith Help?
• John E. Stapleford, Professor of Economic Development, Eastern University, Self-Interest: The Perspectives of Adam Smith and Scripture
• Paul Oslington, Senior Lecturer in Economics and Management, University of NSW/ADFA: Theology, Economics and Free Market Advocacy: A Case Study of Smith, Malthus and Their Nineteenth Century Followers

3B Neoclassical Critique—Panel 2

• Robin Gottfried, Professor of Economics, The University of the South: Salvation, Development and the Ecological Individual
• Charley Clark, Professor of Economics, St. John's University: The Challenge of Catholic Social Thought to Economic Theory
• George Garvey, Professor of Law, Catholic University of America: The Theory of the Firm: A Catholic Perspective

3C Author Book Presentation

• Michael Budde (presenting), Professor of Political Science, DePaul University: Robert W. Brimlow, Christianity Incorporated: How Big Business is Buying the Church (Brazos Press, 2002)

3D Income Distribution and Redistribution

• Richard Grant, Undergraduate Student in Economics, Baylor University: Are Liberal Christians Right? Understanding Distributional Ethics of the Evangelical Left
• Heidi Unruh, Associate Director, Leadership Development Project, Eastern Baptist Seminary: Patterns of Church-Based Responses to Poverty: Justice, Development, Compassion and Transformation
• Eric Schansberg, Professor of Economics, Indiana University at New Albany: Reversing Robin Hood: Explaining and Reducing Redistribution to the Non-Poor

3E Population Issues

• Mercedes Arzu Wilson, President, Family of the Americas Foundation: Divorce Rate Comparisons between Couples Using Natural Family Planning and Artificial Birth Control
• John Berkman, Department of Theology, The Catholic University of America: Family Size, Eugenics, & Dignity of the Poor: Catholic Social Teaching & Neo-Malthusian Economics of Early 20th Century

3F Chiara Lubich: The Economy of Sharing

• Charles M. Cargille, President, International Population and Family Association: A New Economic Paradigm: The Economy of Sharing of Chiara Lubich
• Dan Jennings, Professor Emeritus of Social Work, University of Houston: A Spirituality of Communion Expressed as an Economy of Sharing
• David Peterson, PhD Psychology, University of Houston: Basis of a New Economic Culture: The Economy of Communion
  

3G Distributive Justice—Panel 2

• Todd Lake, Dean of University Ministries, Baylor University: "Oppression" and "Injustice" as Key Concepts in a Biblical Understanding of Poverty
• Christopher Callaway, Doctoral Student in Philosophy, St. Louis University: Thomas Aquinas, Almsgiving, and the Welfare State
• James Konow, Professor of Economics, Loyola Marymount University: Which Is the Fairest One of All? : A Positive Analysis of Distributive Justice Theories
  

10:00 to 10:30 a.m.

Break

10:30 to 11:45 a.m.

Plenary Session 2

• Michael Novak, Jewett Scholar, American Enterprise Institute: The Economist as Philosopher

11:45 to 1:00 p.m

Catered Lunch

1:00 to 2:30 p.m.

Concurrent Session 4

4A Economic Personalism

• Daniel Rush Finn, Professor of Economics and Theology, St. John's University: Challenges Facing Economic Personalism
• Edward O'Boyle, Senior Research Associate, Mayo Research Institute: Comments on the Center for Economic Personalism's Three Monographs on the Synthesis of Christian Personalism and Free-Market Theory
• Paul Cleveland, Associate Professor of Economics, Birmingham Southern College: Connections Between the Austrian School of Economics and Christian Faith: A Personalist Approach
• Stephen Grabill, Research Fellow, Center for Economic Personalism: Introduction to Economic Personalism

4B Methodology and Economics—Panel 2

• James Sauer, Professor of Philosophy, St. Mary's University: Christian Faith, Economy and Economics: What Do Christian Ethics Contribute to Understanding Economies?
• Bruce Webb, Professor of Economics, Gordon College: Is there Value-Added in Christian Scholarship: The Case of Unemployment
• Kurt Schaefer, Professor of Economics, Calvin College: Measurement in Economics

4C Author Book Presentation

• Albino Barrera, Associate Professor of Humanities, Providence College: Modern Catholic Social Documents and Political Economy (Georgetown University Press, 2001)

Teaching Economics—Panel 1

• Bill Tillman, Professor of Christian Ethics, Hardin-Simmons University: A Pedagogy for Christians and the Environment
• Paul R. Koch, Professor of Economics, Olivet Nazarene University: The Meaning of Biblical/Christian Metaphors in Economic Analysis and Instruction
• John Pisciotta, Associate Professor of Economics, Baylor University: Using the Grandchildren of John Maynard Keynes to Explore Ethics in Introductory Economics

4E Economic Systems: Third Ways and Socialism

• Christopher Shannon, Department of Social Work and Anthropology, St. Mary's College (Indiana): A Catholic Third Way? Historical Observations on the State and the Market in Catholic Social Teaching
• Larry Harwood, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Viterbo University, Christian Economies and Secular Socialism: Ends and Ends

4F Protestant Perspectives on Political Economy

• Bryan Bademan, Doctoral Student in History, University of Notre Dame: Evangelical Economics in Industrializing Scotland: Thomas Chalmer's Political Economy
• Stewart Davenport, Assistant Professor of History, Pepperdine University: Making Political Economy Safe for the Christian Republic, 1820-1860
• Gideon Strauss, Research & Education Director, Christian Labor Association of Canada: The Economic Thought of Kuyper and the Emergence of Christian Labor

4G Moral Foundations of Capitalism—Panel 1

• Douglas Downing, Associate Professor of Economics, Seattle Pacific University: Are Market Values Wrong?
• Robin Klay and John Lunn, Professors of Economics, Hope College: The Providence of God in Relationship to Market Economies and Economic Theory
• Edd S. Noell, Professor of Economics and Chair, Westmont College: Wealth and Market Exchange in the Gospels: Re-examining the Evidence

2:30 to 2:45 p.m.

Break

2:45 to 4:15 p.m.

Concurrent Session #5

5A Intermediate Institutions in Catholic & Reformed Thought

• Ray Pennings, Chair, Center for Industrial Relations Innovation, Work Research Foundation: Applying a Kuyperian Framework to North American Economic Institutions
• Mark Lowery, Professor of Theology, University of Dallas: Subsidiarity and the Relationship of Social Capital to Economic Capital
• Gregory Beabout, Associate Professor of Philosophy, St. Louis University: Subsidiarity in the Economic Thought of John Paul II

5B Mathematical and Econometric Perspectives on Religion

• James E. Hartley, Associate Professor of Economics, Mount Holyoke College: Augustine, Luther and Calvin: Pioneers of the Nonstochastic Dynamic General Equilibrium Model
• Carl Gwin and Charles North, Assistant Professors of Economics, Baylor University: The Unintended Consequences of the Establishment of Religion
• Rock-Antoine Mehanna, Assistant Professor of Business and Economics, Wartburg College: International Trade, Religion, and Political Freedom: An Empirical Investigation

5C Author Book Presentation

• Philip Jenkins, Distinguished Professor of History and Religious Studies, Pennsylvania State University: The Next Christendom: The Coming of Global Christianity (Oxford University Press, 2002)

5D Labor and Labor Markets

• John Mizzoni, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Villanova University, Neumann College: Perspectives of Work in Our Capitalistic Culture
• Daniel Fairchild, Associate Professor of Economics, University of St. Thomas: The Option for the Poor and Minimum Wage Laws
• Robert Kennedy, Professor of Management, University of St. Thomas: The Practice of Just Compensation

5E World Poverty, Trade, and Development

• Matthew Pearson, Graduate Student in Theology, St. Louis Covenant Seminary: Globalization and International Trade: Evaluating the Impact on the Poor, the Environment, and Culture
• Rev. Raymond J. de Souza, Doctoral Student in Theology, Pontifical University of the Holy Cross: Economic Liberty & International Trade as a Prescription for Development in Pope John Paul II's Centesimus Annus
• Pedro de Jesus Pallares Yabur, Professor and Academic Coordinator, Universidad Panamericana, Guadalajara, Mexico: Mexico and Its Poverty

5G Business Ethics

• Stephen J. Conroy, Assistant Professor of Economics, University of West Florida, Tisha Emerson, Assistant Professor of Economics, Baylor University: Business Ethics and Religion: The Role of Religiosity in Response to Ethical Situations
• John Wood, Professor of Religion, Baylor University: Enron and Business Ethics: History Repeating Itself

4:15 to 4:30 p.m.

Break

4:30 to 5:45 p.m.

Plenary Session #3

• Rebecca Blank, Dean, Gerald Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan: Understanding Markets as Both an Economist and a Christian

5:45 to 7:00 p.m.

Catered Dinner, Truitt Seminary Great Hall

7:00 to 8:00 p.m.

Vespers Service, Truitt Seminary Chapel

8:00 to 9:30 p.m.

Plenary Session #4

• Glenn Loury, Professor of Economics, Boston University: Anatomy of Racial Inequality

Saturday, November 9

8:30 to 10:00 a.m.

Concurrent Session #6

6A Augustine and Aquinas on Markets

• Andrew Yuengert, Associate Professor of Economics, Pepperdine University: Aquinas in the Marketplace of Ideas: Teleology and Market Exchange
• Richard Dougherty, Professor of Politics, University of Dallas: Catholicism and the Economy: Early Thinking on Property Ownership
• Rachel Douchant, Doctoral Student in Philosophy, St. Louis University: Thomas, Just Price and Just Exchange

6B Methodology and Economics—Panel 3

• James A. Marcum, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Baylor University: Economics, the Physics of the Social Sciences? A Philosophy of Science and Christian Theology Critique
• Robert C. Roberts, Distinguished Professor of Ethics, Baylor University: Rational Choice: A Philosopher's Perspective

6C Faith-Based Anti-Poverty Programs

• Paul Oslington, Senior Lecturer in Economics and Management, Australian Defense Force Academy: The Australian Experience of Contracting Welfare and Labor Market Services to the Churches
• William Lockhart, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Baylor University: The Many Capitals of Faith-Based and Secular Poverty-to-Work Programs: Exploring the Roles of Social, Cultural, Religious

6D Neoclassical Economics: Valuation Issues

• Eugene McCarraher, Assistant Professor of Humanities, Villanova University: The Enchantments of Capitalism: Commodity Fetishism, Christian Theology and the Economic Imagination
• John D. Mason, Professor of Economics, Gordon College: Tiebout, Education and the Ethics of Choice

6E Consumerism, Work, and Sabbath

• Darrel Colson, Provost and Dean of the College, Centenary College: Arendt, Thoreau and Oikonomikos
• Fr. Timothy V. Vaverek, Pastor, St. Joseph's Catholic Church, Waco, TX: Christian Asceticism : Breaking Consumerism's Destructive Hold
• Norman Wirzba, Professor of Philosophy, Georgetown College: Toward a Sabbath Economy: A Theological Framework for Economists

6F Christian Ethics and the Market Economy

• William L. Anderson, Professor of Business Management, Frostburg State University, Timothy D. Terell, Professor of Economics, Wofford College: Biblical Stewardship and a Private Property Order
• Don Mathews, Associate Professor of Economics, Coastal Georgia Community College: The Catholic Perspective on Private Property and Capitalism

6G The Political Economy of Niebuhr and John Paul II

• John Pawlikowski, Professor of Social Ethics, Catholic Theological Union: Pope John Paul II on the Market Economy
• Charles McDaniel, Interim Associate Director of the J. M. Dawson Institute, Baylor University: Reinhold Niebuhr's "Economic Realism": A Critical Response to Austrian Subjectivism in American Christian Economic Thought

10:00 to 10:30 a.m.

Break

10:30 to 11:45 a.m.

Plenary Session #5

• Robert Nelson, Professor, School of Public Affairs, University of Maryland: The Theological Meaning of Economics

11:45 to 1:00 p.m.

Catered Lunch, HCB Blume Conference/Seminar Rooms

1:00-2:30 p.m.

Concurrent Session #7

7A Economics of Religion

• Victor Claar, Assistant Professor of Economics, Hope College, John Lunn, Professor of Economics, Hope College: An Economic Model of Forgiveness
• John E. Anderson, Professor of Economics, University of Nebraska: Churches and Clubs: The Economics of Religious Preferences and Sorting Using Club Theory
• Steve Green, Chair, Department of Economics, Baylor University: Religious Faith, Time Inconsistency, and the Economics of Self-Control

7B Homo Economicus and Other Perspectives on the Human Person

• Rick Martinez, Assistant Professor of Management, Baylor University: Economic Man in the Mirror: Reflecting God Through Creative, Efficient and Rational Actors
• Gerald Smith, Professor of Economics, Minnesota State University: Human Nature, Economic Theory, and Christian Social Thought
• Marjorie J. Cooper, Professor of Marketing, Baylor University: Modernity, Post-Modernism, and Economic Loss

7C Teaching Economics—Panel 2

• Patrick O'Neill, Professor and Chair of Department of Economics, University of North Dakota: Including Christian Principles in Principles of Economics Courses at a State University: An Experiment in Expanding the Curriculum
• Emil Berendt, Assistant Professor of Economics, Friends University: Using Genesis to Teach Religious Aspects of Economics

7D World Poverty and Development

• Adel Abadeer, Associate Professor of Economics, Calvin College: Christian Perspectives on Modern Day Slavery
• Robert Black: Professor of Economics, Houghton College: Why are Some Nations Rich and Others Poor?
• Jonathan Warner, Professor of Business and Economics, Dordt College: Sustainability, Sphere Sovereignty and the Limits of Government

7E Historical Experience

• Ian Hodge, Owner and Principal, Stoliarsky School of Music, Australia: Christianity and Economic Progress in Western Civilization
• Zachary R. Calo, Doctoral Student in History, University of Pennsylvania: The Ethical Aspects of Economic Doctrine: John A. Ryan, Catholic Liberalism, and the Origins of Industrial Democracy
• Bill Campbell, Professor of Economics, Retired, Louisiana State University: Wealth and Poverty in Renaissance Florence

7F Moral Foundations of Capitalism—Panel 2

• Catherine Ruth Pakaluk, Doctoral Student in Economics, Harvard University, Michael Pakaluk, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Clark University: Ethical Limitations of the Market and Economic Analysis
• Kent A. Van Til, Doctoral Student in Religion, Marquette University: The Amorality, Morality and Immorality of Capitalism

7G Panel discussion on Robert Fogel's The Fourth Great Awakening and the Future of Egalitarianism

• Kent Gilbreath, Department of Economics, Baylor University
• Barry Hankins, Department of History, Baylor University

2:30 to 2:45 p.m.

Break

2:45 to 4:00 p.m.

Plenary Session #6

• Judith Dean, International Economist, U. S. International Trade Commission: No Compromise: The Christian Economist as a Mainstream Scholar

4:00 to 4:15 p.m.

Break

4:15 to 5:45 p.m.

Closing Panel Discussion

• Earl L. Grinols, Professor of Economics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Kenneth G. Elzinga, Professor of Economics, University of Virginia
• John P. Tiemstra, Professor of Economics, Calvin College
• Charles K. Wilber, Emeritus Professor of Economics, University of Notre Dame