The Economy of Francesco - Reading Group Spring 2020
Meeting schedule: Mondays, 3:15 - 4:45 (DSH 260)
Contact:
Bonnie Wilson, Associate Professor of Economics
Office: DS 369B | bonnie.wilson@slu.edu
Office hours: Mondays and Wednesdays, 12:00 - 1:30, by appointment, when the door is open...
ECON 4980 syllabus
Materials...
Week 1 (01.13) - The concerns of Pope Francis and some classical liberal ideas
Week 2 (01.27) - Property (a la Leo XIII and John Paul II)
Week 3 (02.03) - Ideal systems and men - Cohen and Brennan). Read all of Cohen; chapter 2 + one other chapter of your choosing in Brennan.
Week 4 (02.10) - Sick systems and men (and a start on remedies)
Week 5 (02.17) - Aquinas and the Market. Chapters 1-3. [Here are a couple of podcasts: EconTalk; The Politics Guys]
Week 6 (02.24) - Aquinas and the Market. Chapters 4-6.
Week 7 (03.02) - Aquinas and the Market. Chapter 7. And Boettke and Jace - Creativity and Cleverness within Discipline in the Study of Man and the Study of Happiness
Week 8 (03.16) (03.23) - Inequality and poverty; Zoom meeting link.
Week 9 (03.30) - Growth
Week 10 (04.06) - Environment
Week 11 (04.13) - COVID-19
Final week (04.20) - Wrap-up
Links...
Dropbox link for submission of written work (for those participating for course credit)
Roger Scruton - Why Beauty Matters
McCloskey on the Open Fields of England (and enclosure)
An anti-capitalism summit? [HT: Jordan]
Harmel academy - a residential Catholic trade school
Novak (Catholic philosopher ) on Pope Francis - here and here (he suggests we read Francis through the lens of Argentine experience) [HT: Nathan's remarks during discussion reminded me of Novak's take - and suggestion about how to read Francis.]
Podcast on classical stuff you should know. [Our week 1 discussion made me think there might be much food for thought for some in the January 21 episode on After Virtue.]
The Three Necessary Societies [HT: Jordan]
Binyamin Appelbaum (author of The Economists' Hour: False Prophets, Free Markets, and the Fracture of Society) - econtalk; book review at ProMarket; pairagraph dialogue featuring McCloskey and Appelbaum
Branko Milanovic and Luigi Zingales on the future of capitalism; Milanovic is author of Capitalism Alone: The Future of the System that Rules the World
Lawrence Glickman - Free Enterprise: An American History; review by Glory Liu
Mark Fisher - Capitalist Realism [HT: Adam]
In America magazine: How entrepreneurs can respond to Pope Francis' call.
Higher Education in an Era of Mass Incarceration: Possibility under Constraint (HT: Raymond)
Anand Giridharadas - Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World
Scholastic Just Price, Economic Theory, and Modern Catholic Social Thought