Plenary Speakers
 (To view an individual speaker's professional biography, click on the corresponding name.)

George M. Marsden Rebecca M. Blank Judith Dean David Gushee Glenn C. Loury Robert H. Nelson
Michael Novak Earl Grinols John Tiemstra Ken Elzinga

Charles K. Wilber

 		 

Keynote Speaker

George M. Marsden

  Francis A. McAnaney Professor of History

  University of Notre Dame

The Outrageous Idea of Christian Scholarship (1997)

The Soul of the American University: From Protestant Establishment to Established Nonbelief (1994)

Understanding Fundamentalism and Evangelicalism (1991)

Religion in American Culture (1990)

 

Plenary Speakers

Rebecca M. Blank

Dean, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy
 Henry Carter Adams Collegiate Professor of Public Policy

University of Michigan

Do Justice: Linking Christian Faith and Modern Economic Life (1992)

The New World of Welfare (co-edited with Ron Haskins 2001)

It Takes a Nation: A New Agenda for Fighting Poverty  (updated edition 1998)

Social Protection Versus Economic Flexibility: Is There a Trade-Off? (editor 1994)

 

Judith Dean

International Economist

U. S. International Trade Commission

International Trade and the Environment (editor 2001)

Does Trade Liberalization Harm the Environment? A New Test (2000)

Export Bans, Environmental Protection, and Unemployment (1997)

The Trade Policy Revolution in Developing Countries (1995)

Associate Professor of Economics, SAIS, Johns Hopkins University (1990-2000)

 

David Gushee

Graves Professor of Moral Philosophy

Senior Fellow, Carl F. H. Henry Center for Christian Leadership

Union University

Christians and Politics Beyond the Culture Wars: An Agenda for Engagement (2000)

Toward and Just and Caring Society: Christian Responses to Poverty in America (1999)

The Future of Christian Higher Education (coeditor with David S. Dockery and Robert Andringa 1999)

 

Glenn C. Loury

    Professor of Economics and Director of the Institute on Race and Social Division

    Boston University

One by One from the Inside Out: Essays and Reviews on Race and Responsibility in America  (1996)

Mending Fences: Renewing Justice Between Government and Civil Society (contributed essay 1998)

From Children to Citizens: Families, Schools, and Delinquency Prevention (coeditor with James Q. Wilson)

An Analysis of the Efficiency and Inflationary Impact of the Decontrol of Natural Gas Prices (1981)

 

Robert H. Nelson

School of Public Affairs

             University of Maryland

Economics as Religion: From Samuelson to Chicago and Beyond (2001)

Reaching for Heaven on Earth: The Theological Meaning of Economics (1991)

Public Land and Private Rights: The Failure of Scientific Management (1995)

The Making of Federal Coal Policy (1983)

 

Michael Novak

George Frederick Jewett Scholar in Religion, Philosophy, and Public Policy

             American Enterprise Institute

Business as a Calling: Work and the Examined Life (1996)

The Catholic Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (1993)

The Spirit of Democratic Capitalism (revised 1991)

To Empower People: From State to Civil Society (editor, 1996)

The Fire of Invention: Civil Society and the Future of the Corporation (1997)

 

Plenary Discussants

Earl Grinols

Professor of Economics, Univ. of Illinois

"Management and Information Issues for Industries with Externalities: The Case of Gambling," Managerial and Decision Economics (forthcoming).

"Business Profitability vs. Social Profitability: Evaluating the Social Contribution of Industries with Externalities-The Case of the Casino Industry," Managerial and Decision Economics (forthcoming).

"The Economics of Casino Gambling," Journal of Economic Perspectives,14, 1, Winter 2000, 223-225.

"Casino Gambling Causes Crime," Policy Forum, 13, 2, 2000, 1-4.

"Distance Effects in Consumption: Measuring Distance Value with Application to Casino Siting," Review of Regional Studies, 29, 1, 1999, 63-76.

"Gambling: An Intrinsically Flawed Product?" Gulf Coast Christian Newspaper, 6, 10, April 1997, 1, 19.

"Gambling Economics: A Primer," Faith and Economics, 28, Fall, 1996, 25-31.

 

John Tiemstra

Professor of Economics, Calvin College

"Spiritual Poverty, Material Wealth," Perspectives/Reformed Journal, forthcoming.

"Wasting Time and Wasting the Earth," International Journal of Social Economics, forthcoming.

"A New Approach to the General Education Economics Course," in Teaching the Social Economics Way of Thinking (Lewiston, NY), 2000.

"Every Square Inch: Kuyperian Social Theory and Economics," in Religion and Economics: Normative Social Theory (Boston), 1999.

"Why Economists Disagree" Challenge: The Magazine of Economic Affairs, May/June 1998. Reprinted in Signposts of God's Liberating Kingdom (South Africa, 1998), and in Annual Editions: Economics 99/00 (Guilford, CT, 1999).

 

Ken Elzinga

Professor of Economics, University of Virginia

"Economics and Religion: An Essay," in James M. Dean and A.M.C. Waterman (eds.) Religion and Economics: Normative Social Theory, Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1999.

"Price Wars Triggered by Entry," (with David E. Mills) 17 International Journal of Industrial Organization 179 (1999).

"Walter Adams: In Memoriam," 3 Southern Economic Journal 65 (1999).

"Industrial Organization and Human Action," 19 Cato Journal, 233 (1999).

"Independent Service Organizations and Economic Efficiency," Economic Inquiry, Vol 39, 2001.

"U.S. v. Microsoft: Remedy or Malady?" with David. S. Evans and Albert L. Nichols, 9 George Mason Law Review, , 633 (2001).

"Predatory Pricing and Strategic Theory," with David E. Mills, 89 Georgetown Law Journal, 2475 (2001).

"Fifteen Theses on Classroom Teaching." 68 Southern Economic Journal, 249 ( 2001).

 

Charles K. Wilber

Emeritus Professor, Department of Economics
Fellow, Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies
University of Notre Dame

Beyond Reaganomics: A Further Inquiry into the Poverty of Economics (1990).

The Moral Defense of Free Market Capitalism (1992)

Trust, Moral Hazards and Social Economics: Incentives and the
Organization of Work (1994)

Humane Development: The Political Economy of Peace (1994)

Rethinking Human Welfare (1995)
The Ethics of Consumption: A Roman Catholic View (1998)

Globalization and Democracy (1998)

John Paul II, Catholic Social Thought and the Ethics of Consumption (1998)

Economics, Ethics and Public Policy, ed., (1998).