The Project’s Seminar was born out of the need for an exchange of information, in regard to both bibliographical resources as well as the current activities of each of its members. A series of five meetings between January and October 2009 fulfilled this need.
A second stage was the transformation of these sessions into academic discussions with a unitary theme.
During the 2009-2010 academic year, these meetings became opportunities to debate the arguments proposed in Chapter III of Caritas in Veritate, arguments which became the frame for the 2010 October Conference: markets and finance, public authority, entrepreneurship, virtues, and Corporate Social Responsibility. These meetings draw both our international collaborators and have allowed us as well to further our relationship with IESE Business School by inviting its professors to contribute.
Beginning with the 2010-2011 academic year, the sessions were opened to License and Doctoral students.
The following is the program for the Seminar for the 2011-2012 academic year as well as the programs from past years.
2011-2012: History of Economic Thought II
Session I
Date: 9 November 2011
Theme: Pre-Smithian Authors: J. Turgot and R. Cantillon
Physiocrats, Cameralists, and Mercantilists
Session II
Date: 11 January 2012
Theme: Adam Smith
The Theory of Moral Sentiments
The Wealth of Nations
Session III
Date: 16 March 2012
Theme: Classical authors
T.R. Malthus and D. Ricardo
J. Stuart Mill and K. Marx
Session IV
Date: 9 May 2012
Theme: Marginalist Revolution
W.S. Jevons and the Cambridge School of Economics
(A. Marshall, A.C. Pigou, and F.Y. Edgeworth)
L.M.S. Walrus and W. Pareto
K. Menger and the Austrian School of Economics
These sessions are held from 10:30 to 12:30 at the Pontifical University.
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2010-2011: History of Economic Thought II
Session I
Date: 27 October 2010
Theme: The Franciscan School
Speakers: Oreste Bazzichi, Pontifical Theological Faculty of St. Bonaventure
Nicola Riccardi, Pontifical University Antonianum
Session II
Date: 13 January 2011
Theme: The Domenican School
Speakers: Fausto Arici, Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas
Samuele Sangalli, LUISS Guido Carlo University
Session III
Date: 9 March 2011
Theme: The School of Salamanca
Speakers: Antonio Moreno, University of Navarre
Miguel Alfonso Martínez-Echevarría, University of Navarre
Session IV
Date: 13 April 2011
Theme: The Italian Enlightenment
Speakers: Flavio Felice, Pontifical Lateran University
Viviana di Giovinazzo, University of Milan-Bicocca
2009-2010: Meetings
Session I
Date: 16 December 2009
Theme: Caritas in Veritate 3: Markets and Finance
Speakers: Matthias Gass
Giuseppe Schlitzer
Session II
Date: 3 February 2010
Theme: Caritas in Veritate 3: Business and CSR
Speakers: Giovanna Porcaro
Joan Fontrodona
Session III
Date: 2 March 2010
Work Meeting
Session IV
Date: 14 April 2010
Theme: Caritas in Veritate 3: Entrepreneurship and Virtue
Speakers: Domènec Melé
Rita Zeckel
Session V
Date: 16 June 2010
Theme: Caritas in Veritate 3: Public Authority
Speakers: Giovanni Doria
Osvaldo Neves de Almeida
