Rethinking Economic Equality: A Thomistic Perspective I Professor Mary Hirschfeld

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🗓️ 6 February 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Mary Hirschfeld is Associate Professor of Theology at the University of Notre Dame. Before joining the faculty at Notre Dame, Mary Hirschfeld was Associate Professor of Economics and Theology in the Department of Humanities at Villanova University where she regularly taught the Humanities gateways Society and God, and honors ACS seminars (ancients and moderns). She completed a Ph.D. in economics (Harvard University) under the direction of Lawrence Summers and Jeffrey Williamson, and a Ph.D. in Moral Theology (University of Notre Dame) under the direction of Jean Porter. Her research is on the boundary between economics and theology, culminating in her book Aquinas and the Market: Toward a Humane Economy (Harvard University Press, 2018).

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1:08.8	What brings me here is my crazy intellectual journey.
1:11.6	I started off as an economist. I was also sort of a pagan, secular type, with no idea
1:16.6	that I was going to become Catholic at all.
1:19.6	As an economist at Harvard, I went into economics because I wanted to make the world a better place
1:24.6	by creating great economic policy to lift the poor up out of their misery.
1:28.8	And I learned a lot as an economist, but while even at Harvard I had a feeling that its
1:34.0	heart was misplaced, that there was something about the human condition that went missing
1:38.2	in the economic way of seeing the world.
1:41.9	While again having a lot of value, I didn't know how to sort it out. And so I ended up going off to teach in a liberal arts college and teach students supply and demand, which I thought was perfectly good for their souls. I had a crazy conversion out of the blue about 15 years later. The best thing that has ever happened in my life
2:03.2	but all of a sudden I found myself as a Catholic in a Dominican parish looking at a
2:08.1	stained glass window of Thomas Aquinas and after a few years of that I felt called
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