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Catholic Economics? An Afternoon Panel Discussion on Capitalism, Solidarity, and Modern Catholic Social Thought

Date & Time: Thursday, November 14, 2013, 12 Noon

Place: Ben Franklin Room, Houston Hall 218

FEATURED SPEAKER:

Dr. Maciej Zieba, OP: an activist in Poland’s Solidarity movement, biographer of Karol Wojtyla (the late Pope John Paul II), and author of the new book, Papal Economics: The Catholic Church on Democratic Capitalism.

RESPONDENT:

Dr. Mary Hirschfeld: an economist and theologian in the Humanities Department at Villanova University. Her articles have been featured in Review of Economics and Statistics, History of Political Economy, and Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics.

This event is cosponsored by the Program for Politics, Philosophy and Economics at the University of Pennsylvania and the Collegium Institute Student Association at Penn.

Lunch refreshments served. RSVP: dcheely@collegiuminstitute.org

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