Economic Justice

This seminar brings philosophical, humanistic, and religious analyses to bear on current issues of economic justice in the United States. The first part of the seminar studies general background issues (history of U.S. economics, philosophies of money, labor, private property, human dignity, etc.). In the second part, student study groups present their research on specific, agreed-upon topics, e.g., economic ideologies (neoliberalism, democratic socialism, etc.), models of economic justice, income and wealth distribution, etc. The goal is to move from analysis through criticism to concrete applications.