Conference “Economics and Human Flourishing: (What) Can Economists Learn from Theology?”

Friday June 30, 2023

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9:00 am

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Opening & Welcome

9:00 am – 9:15 am (15 min)
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Keynote I: Divine Pretentions of Homo Economicus: The Limits of Good Economic Storytelling

9:15 am – 10:15 am (60 min)
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Gordon Menzies

Coffee Break

10:15 am – 10:30 am (15 min)
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Homo Dignus: A Dignified Anthropology for Economics

10:30 am – 11:10 am (40 min)
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Ard Jan Biemond

Modelling the Order of Charity in Normative Economics

10:30 am – 11:10 am (40 min)
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Andrew Yuengert

Underlying Anthropology in Economic Models: What Economists can still Learn from Theology

11:10 am – 11:50 am (40 min)
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Radek Biernacki, Facultad de Economía y Negocios

Finance, Human Flourishing and the Logic of Stakeholder Engagement

11:10 am – 11:50 am (40 min)
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Geoffrey Friesen

Lunch

11:50 am – 12:50 pm (60 min)
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On the Reciprocal Relationship between Economics and Theology

1:30 pm – 2:10 pm (40 min)
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Volker Kessler

Impossibility Theorems in Economy of Salvation

1:30 pm – 2:10 pm (40 min)
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Akshay Shanker

Plenary summary & discussion

2:10 pm – 3:10 pm (60 min)
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Break

3:10 pm – 3:40 pm (30 min)
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The Tripartite Homo Amans and Economic Game Theory

3:40 pm – 4:20 pm (40 min)
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Bas van Os & Lans Bovenberg

God is not a Nudge: An Anselmian Case against Libertarian Paternalism

4:20 pm – 5:00 pm (40 min)
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Xavier Meulders

The End(s) of Economics: Towards a Theological Economics of Eschatology

4:20 pm – 5:00 pm (40 min)
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Aubrey Emmett

Plenary summary & discussion

5:00 pm – 5:40 pm (40 min)
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Keynote II: Economics and Theology of the Community Mechanism

5:40 pm – 6:40 pm (60 min)
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Masao Ogaki

Break & Aperitive

6:40 pm – 7:30 pm (50 min)
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Conference Dinner (Restaurant De Oude Kantien, Kantineplein 3 Leuven)

7:30 pm – 10:00 pm (150 min)
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Pub Night (Basement)

10:00 pm – 11:55 pm (115 min)
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Saturday July 01, 2023

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7:30 am

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Breakfast

7:30 am – 8:00 am (30 min)
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Meditation (optional)

8:00 am – 8:30 am (30 min)
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Break

9:30 am – 10:00 am (30 min)
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Living Happy in a Happy Community: Economics as Intersubjectivity

10:00 am – 10:40 am (40 min)
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Emilio di Somma

Divine Pretensions: A Christian Critique of Neoclassical Economic Growth

10:00 am – 10:40 am (40 min)
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Robert Tatum & Gordon Menzies

Towards a Metaphysics of Usury: Flourishing in Time or Eternity?

10:40 am – 11:20 am (40 min)
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Michael Bauwens

Introducing Virtue Ethics into Normative Economics for Models with Endogenous Preferences

10:40 am – 11:20 am (40 min)
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Vipul Bhatt & Masao Ogaki

Plenary summary & discussion

11:20 am – 12:00 pm (40 min)
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Lunch

12:00 pm – 1:00 pm (60 min)
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Felix Culpa: The Economics of Genesis as the Genesis of Economics

1:00 pm – 1:40 pm (40 min)
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Arttu Mäkipää

The Creation, Fall, and Redemption of Economic Man

1:40 pm – 2:20 pm (40 min)
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Joost Hengstmengel

Break

2:20 pm – 2:50 pm (30 min)
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A Tripartite Model of the Homo Amans: Eros, Philia, and Agape

2:50 pm – 3:30 pm (40 min)
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Bas van Os & Lans Bovenberg

Plenary summary & discussion

3:30 pm – 4:10 pm (40 min)
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Panel Discussion

4:10 pm – 4:55 pm (45 min)
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Closing

4:55 pm – 5:00 pm (5 min)
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Pizza Dinner

5:00 pm – 6:00 pm (60 min)
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