Contributors
Simona Beretta is Professor of International Economic Policies at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Milan and Program Coordinator at ASERI, Postgraduate School of Economics and International Relations. She is a graduate in Economics from the Catholic University of Milan and earned the M.Sc. in Economics at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She is a member of the editorial board of the Rivista Internazionale di Scienze Sociali. Her research includes issues of international monetary theory and policy, financial globalization, the political economy of international relations, European integration and development.
Albino Barrera is a member of the Order of Preachers (Dominican Order) and is a native of the Philippines. He is professor of economics and humanities (theology) at Providence College. His publications include Globalization and Economic Ethics: Distributive Justice in the Knowledge Economy (Palgrave MacMillan), Economic Compulsion and Christian Ethics (Cambridge), God and the Evil of Scarcity: Moral Foundations of Economic Agency (Notre Dame), and Modern Catholic Social Documents and Political Economy (Georgetown). In addition to his teaching responsibilities, he helps out on the weekends at local parishes in the diocese of Providence and occasionally preaches out-of-town parish retreats and missions. He has a licentiate in theology (STL) from the Dominican House of Studies in Washington D.C. and a Ph.D. in Economics from Yale University.
Maylin Biggadike is an economist, theologian, and priest in The Episcopal Church. She received her doctorate in Christian ethics from Union Theological Seminary in New York. Her dissertation is entitled "A Christian Social Ethical Response to Poverty: Economic Development through the Eyes of Poor Women in Developing Countries." Prior to receiving her doctorate, she was granted the Master of Arts in Theology from General Theological Seminary, the Master of Arts in economics from Boston College, and the Bachelor or Arts in economics from the University of Massachusetts. She presently serves as priest associate at St. Elizabeth's Church in Ridgewood, New Jersey and is a delegate of the Episcopal Church to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women. Her work involves preparing Anglican delegates from all over the world on the economic aspects and faith basis of the UN theme for 2008, "Financing for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women." Her current research project investigates the economic and moral dimensions of the sex-trafficking of young girls.
John Carr is Executive Director of the Department of Justice, Peace and Human Development at the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, coordinating the bishops' policy development and advocacy efforts on a wide range of national and global issues, including poverty, hunger, health care, human rights, religious freedom, debt, development, trade, and war and peace. He has represented the US Bishops at the Vatican and in the Middle East, Central America, Southern Africa, Southeast Asia, and Russia. He has served as Executive Director of the White House Conference on Family and as Director of the National Committee for Full Employment. He currently serves on the board of Bread for the World, the National Religious Partnership for the Environment, the Catholic Health Association and the Law School of the University of St. Thomas. John is a graduate of St. John Vianney Seminary and the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota.
John Coleman is associate pastor of St. Ignatius Church in San Francisco and was, prior to his retirement, Charles Casassa Professor of Social Values at Loyola Marymount University. He has published widely on issues related to the sociology of religion, Catholic social thought, social theory, and theories of justice. His publications include Globalization and Catholic Social Thought (Orbis) and Christian Political Ethics (Princeton). He has been a research fellow at The Woodstock Center, The Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars, the University of Chicago's Institute for Advanced Studies in Religion, and elsewhere. He has taught at the University of Louvain and the University of Santa Clara. He received the B.A. from St. Louis University, the M.A., Licentiate in Philosophy, from St. Louis University, the S.T.M., Licentiate in Theology, from Santa Clara University, and the Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of California, Berkeley.
Daniel Finn teaches at St. John's University in Collegeville, Minnesota, where he is Professor of Theology and holds the William E. and Virginia Clemens Chair in Economics and the Liberal Arts. He is a past-president of Society of Christian Ethics, the Catholic Theological Society of America, and the Association for Social Economics. He has provided leadership on affordable housing in Central Minnesota and is chair of the steering committee of a project to engage the Catholic Church in Latin America to work with civil society organizations to confront government corruption. His most recent books are Just Trading: On the Ethics and Economics of International Trade (Abingdon) and The Moral Ecology of Markets: Assessing Claims about Markets and Justice (Cambridge). He earned the B.S. from St. John Fisher College and the M.A. and PhD from the University of Chicago. He is a member of the steering committee of the True Wealth of Nations research project.
Jon Gunnemann is Professor of Social Ethics, Emeritus, at the Candler School of Theology and the Graduate Division of Religion at Emory University. He had previous appointments at The Pennsylvania State University and Yale University, and has been a Visiting Professor at Uppsala University (Sweden). He taught business ethics at the School of Organization and Management at Yale and at the Goizueta School of Business at Emory. He was a founding faculty member of the Emory Center for Ethics and of the Law and Religion Program at the Emory School of Law, and continues to serve on the advisory boards of each. He has taught and written extensively in the areas of Christian ethics and the economy, contemporary theories of justice, and other political and social issues. His publications include The Moral Meaning of Revolution (Yale) and (as co-author with John Simon and Charles Powers) The Ethical Investor: Universities and Corporate Responsibility (Yale). He earned the AB from Harvard University, the BD from United Theological Seminary, and the M.A. and PhD from Yale University.
Mary Hirschfeld earned her Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University in 1989, specializing in the fields of macroeconomics and economic history. She was a professor of economics at Occidental College from 1988-2003, where she explored interests in feminist economics, and heterodox approaches to economic theory. Her work has been published in the Review of Economics and Statistics, the Journal of Economic Education, History of Political Economy, and the Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics. After an unexpected conversion to Catholicism, she left her position to study theology at Notre Dame, earning her MTS in 2005. She is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the field of moral theology at Notre Dame.
Paulinus Odozor, a native of Nigeria, is Associate Professor of Christian Ethics at the University of Notre Dame. His research and writing include foundational issues in moral theology, contextual theological issues and inculturation, theology and society, African Christian theology, and the theology of marriage. His articles have appeared in journals in Africa, Asia, Europe, and North America. His major publications include: Moral Theology in An age of Renewal: A study of the Catholic Tradition since Vatican II (Notre Dame Press); Richard A. McCormick and the Renewal of Moral Theology (Notre Dame), and two edited volumes, Sexuality, Marriage and Family: Readings in the Catholic Tradition (Notre Dame) and Africa: Towards Priorities of Mission (SIST Publications). He is currently working on a book that will explore the question of morality and tradition from an African Christian theological perspective. He has held numerous academic, administrative, and pastoral positions in Nigeria and Canada. He is currently president of the Governing Council of Spiritan International School of Theology in Enugu, Nigeria. He earned the Th.D. at the University of Toronto and the S.T.D. at Regis College, Toronto.
Vincent D. Rougeau is an associate professor at the Notre Dame University Law School. His current teaching interests focus on contract and real estate law, as well as law and religion, specializing in Catholic social thought. His most recent research has explored the philosophical and theological underpinnings of Catholic social teaching as they relate to various areas of American law. In particular, he has explored how key assumptions underlying Catholic thinking diverge from many of the ideas animating American law and policy in areas like poverty relief, immigration, and redress for racial discrimination. His book, Christians in the American Empire: Faith and Citizenship in the New World Order (Oxford, September 2008) examines these issues in more detail. He spent 2008-2009 as a Senior Fellow of the Martin Marty Institute at the University of Chicago, and currently serves as Senior Fellow of the Contextual Theology Centre in London. He received his A.B. from Brown University and his J.D. from Harvard.
Andrew M. Yuengert is a Professor of Economics at Seaver College, Pepperdine University. He has taught economics at Pepperdine for fourteen years, prior to which he taught at Bates College in Maine and was a research economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. He has made research contributions in several fields: economic philosophy, Catholic Social Teaching, the empirical study of religion, labor economics, and finance. He is a former President of the Association of Christian Economists, and currently serves as editor of its journal, Faith and Economics. Recent books include The Boundaries of Technique: Ordering Positive and Normative Concerns in Economic Research (Lexington Books) and Inhabiting the Land: the Case for the Right to Migrate (Acton Institute). He holds a B.A. in Economics from the University of Virginia and a PhD in economics from Yale University.
Stefano Zamagni is Professor of Economics at the University of Bologna as well as Senior Adjunct Professor of International Economics and Vice Director of the Bologna Center of the Johns Hopkins University. He is a member of the Academy of Sciences, Bologna, Modena, and Milan and a member of the several editorial boards: the Journal of International and Comparative Economics, the Brock Review, Economics and Philosophy, International Review of Economics and the Journal of Economic Methodology. He has published widely on issues related to capital theory, theory of consumer behavior, social choice theory, economic epistemology, and ethics and economics. His publications include An Outline of the History of Economic Thought (Oxford, OUP) with E. Screpanti, Economia, democrazia, istituzioni in una società in trasformazione (Il Mulino, Bologna), Verso una nuova teoria economica della cooperazione with E. Mazzoli (Il Mulino, Bologna), Civil Economy (P. Lang, Oxford) with L. Bruni and L'economia del bene comune (Citta' Nuova, Roma), Cooperative enterprise: facing the challenge of globalization (Elgar), with V. Zamagni, Avarizia (Bologna, Il Mulino). He did his studies in economics at the University of Milan and Oxford University.
Vera Zamagni is Professor of Economic History at the University of Bologna and visiting professor at the Bologna Center of the Johns Hopkins University. She has taught at the Universities of Trieste, Florence, Cassino. Her research and publications address issues related to Italian and European economic development, regional economic integration, business history, the role of government in the economy, welfare problems and the history of the cooperative movement. She has been the founder and co-editor of European Review of Economic History; she is a member of the editorial board of Rivista di storia economica and Revista de historia economica. Her books include Dalla periferia al centro: la seconda rinascita economica dell'Italia: 1861-1990 (Mulino, Bologna; English ed. Economic History of Italy 1860-1990, Oxford), Dalla rivoluzione industriale all'integrazione europea (Mulino, Bologna, Spanish ed. Historia Economica de la Europa Contemporanea, Barcelona, Critica), La cooperazione di consumo in Italia. Centocinquant'anni della Coop consumatori: dal primo spaccio a leader della moderna distribuzione (Bologna, Il Mulino) with P. Battilani e A. Casali. A graduate of the Catholic University of Milan, she earned the D.Phil. at Oxford University.
