Event: The First Cardjin Lecture by 呕摩N: A Christian Critique of the Capitalist System
Date: Tuesday 8 June 2021
Time: 19:00
Venue: Online
Register: (Free of Charge)
呕摩N is proud to announce the First Cardijn Lecture of 2021, A Christian Critique of the Capitalist System by Prof. Stefano Zamagni, President of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences & Professor of Economics at the University of Bologna.
The event will take place on Tuesday 8 June 2021. It is free of charge and will take place online. Registration via Eventbrite is required.
Stefano Zamagni was born in Rimini. He studied at the Sacro Cuore Catholic University in Milan from where he has a laureate in economics and commerce (1966). He then went on to read economics for his DPhil at the University of Oxford (1973).
He is the former Dean of the Economics Faculty at the University of Bologna and currently a Full Professor of Economics at the same University, and Adjunct Professor of International Political Economy at Johns Hopkins University Bologna Centre. Besides this, during his long academic career Prof. Zamagni taught at several Universities including the Sacro Cuore Catholic University (Milan), University of Parma, and the University L. Bocconi (Milan).
He has published several books and papers in professional journals and is also a member of the scientific committee of various economic journals and reviews. His research interests include welfare economics, theory of consumer behaviour, social choice theory, economic epistemology, ethics, history of economic thought and civil economy. On 9 April 2013, Pope Francis appointed Prof. Zamagni a member of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences and on 5 March 2019, the Pope appointed him President of the same Academy, succeeding the British sociologist Prof. Margaret Archer. Besides this, he also is a member of both the Pontifical Council on Justice and Peace, and of the Scientific Committee of the Pontifical Council for Culture.
He is married to Professor Vera Negri. They have two children and four nephews.
