Question to be addressed:

How can an exploration of Adam Smith’s Scottish-Presbyterian background (both theological and sociological) shed new light on the moral status of the free market as he envisioned it?

Participants:

• Jordan Ballor, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
• Luigino Bruni,Università di Roma LUMSA
• Govert Buijs, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
• David Fergusson, University of Edinburgh
• Johan Graafland, University of Tilburg
• Ryan Patrick Hanley, Marquette University
• Joost Hengstmengel, University of Tilburg
• Kees van der Kooi, Vrije Universiteit Amterdam
• Deirdre N. McCloskey, University of Illinois at Chicago
• Andrew M. McGinnis, Acton Institute
• Christina McRorie, Creighton University
• Margaret Schabas, University of British Columbia
• Rudi Verburg, Erasmus University Rotterdam

Participation in this seminar is on invitation only