A graduating senior sends along this press release, indicating that Notre Dame’s academic forum this year will discuss, “the role of ethics, values and morals in the rebuilding and reshaping of the global economy.” Previous topics have been immigration, climate change, and third-world development.
As the press release notes, in play is Pope Benedict XVI’s encyclical, Caritas in Veritate, which I discussed at great length here.
Notably, the stated goal of the forum strikes me as one of the key missions of the now-extinct Department of Economics and Policy Studies. From the department’s website (which will probably be gone in a few months):
It has a strong commitment to analyzing issues relating to socio-economic justice and ethics in economics. It focuses on policy-related topics such as poverty, income distribution and social justice, which stress the human dimension of economics.
So, the big question: will heterodox ideas and approaches get play at this forum? One negative indication is that the host is as mainstream as it gets- Thomas Friedman. That’s sure to piss off the right-wingers at ND, but will it actually drive a discussion of ethics and the economy? The jury is out until I see the other panelists. This forum could be a key entry point for a broader discussion. However, the dissonance between the topic and the decision to close the department could not be starker.
You may be interested in the April 28th: Fiscal Sustainability Teach-In and Conference, described at http://rodgermmitchell.wordpress.com/2010/04/20/fiscal-sustainability-teach-in-and-conference/
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I’ll likely be there for the first session, then work beckons. FYI, I think the schedule may have shifted earlier: http://www.fiscalsustainability.org/node/20
From a philosopher’s perspective the issue is the human person, which is central to Catholic theology and philosophy, as the basis for economic theory as an extension of moral theory as well as social science.
This means questioning the basis of Classical, New Classical, Keynesian, and New Keynesian economics in Bentham’s utility theory, which is interpreted as self-interest and which many identify with the concept of the invisible hand erroneously attributed to Smith.
It is not possible to do credible economics without considering the foundations of economics, for doing so presupposes a number of hidden assumptions that have been the subject of philosophical and theological debate for millennia and are hardly resolved today. To ignore this dimension renders economic theory puerile, and its result has been the degradation of humanity.
One does not have to be Marxian in this regard. Marx provided an alternative but not the only alternative. There are other alternatives to consider and to be developed, based on contemporary knowledge that has vastly expanded the debate through scientific research in cognitive science, evolutionary theory, and so forth. See, for instance, David Sloan Wilson’s series on evolution and economics here and Douglass C. North’s Economics and Cognitive Science.
ND has an opportunity to lead, or it can choose merely to follow, in the servile attempt to appear “mainstream.”
Right on Tom. And you’re right, one doesn’t have to be a Marxian. The reason I hammer Marx here is because he is the most marginalized yet important critic of the mainstream. However, alternatives abound, and they all deserve to be discussed.
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