Catholic Social Thought and Markets - Antiquity and Modernity Spring 2019
Instructors:
Gregory Beabout, Professor of Philosophy
Office: Adorjan 201 | gregory.beabout@slu.edu
Bonnie Wilson, Associate Professor of Economics
Office: DS 369B | bonnie.wilson@slu.edu
Office hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 1:30 - 3:30, by appointment, when the door open
ECON 4980 Syllabus; PHIL 4840 Syllabus
Materials and Assignments...
Week 0: Video introduction to the seminar; to Catholic social thought; to markets; prepare all for 01.14
overview of Vatican II (5 minute video); overview of Gaudium et spes (2 minute video)
Why does 1% of history have 99% of the wealth? (3 minute video); Why are there markets? Why do we exchange things? Why do we trade? (4 minute video)
Week 1: The Church in the Modern World and Markets in the (Ancient and) Modern World; prepare all for 01.14
Gaudium et spes, 1-10, 40-45, 63-72; study questions
Olson, Power and Prosperity, chapter 10, p. 173-180, 183-187, 193-199; study questions
Week 2: Prepare all for 01.28.
Rerum Novarum - lecture (26 minutes video); reading and study questions
"Orders" and Institutions (and Religion?); reading and study questions
Week 3 (02.04): Prepare all for 02.04.
Quadragesimo Anno - lecture (19 minute video); reading and study questions
Value, Price, Justice; reading and study questions
Week 4 (02.11): Prepare all for 02.11.
lecture (30 minute video)
What's Wrong with the World - Chesterton podcast
From Alasdair MacIntyre's After Virtue, read the following pages: 1-6, 187-194, 222, 263
From the 1907 encyclical Pascendi Domenici Gregis, read the beginning, especially paragraph 6 and following, then 40-41, and 45-56
reading and study questions
Week 5 (02.18): The Modern Economy and the Good Life. Prepare for 02.18.
Phelps, Mass Flourishing: How Grassroots Innovation Created jobs, Challenge, and Change; reading and study questions
Brief project remarks
Week 6 (02.25): Prepare for 02.25.
Centesimus Annus, especially sections 23-25 and 30-52.
lecture (22 minute video); study questions; more study questions
Visions of the economy in CA; study questions
Symposium readings
Week 7 (prepare for 03.04): Chappel (chapters 1, 2, and 5) and McCloskey (see reader)
Week 8 (prepare for 03.18): Richards (chapter 1-3) and Sandel (see reader)
Week 9 (prepare for 03.25): Sison and Werhane
Symposium - 03.29 - 03.30. Program.
Remainder: independent project work and public project presentations.
Announcements and Miscellaneous Stuff...
Senior legacy symposium reservations due Feb 18.
Links...
Dropbox link for submission of weekly written work (students registered with Dr. Wilson only).