Mary Hirschfeld

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Mary L. Hirschfeld (* 20th century) is an American economist and Roman Catholic theologian .

Life

Mary Hirschfeld first studied economics at Washington State University (BA cum laude). At Harvard University there was a master's degree and a PhD with a focus on macroeconomics and economic history. From 1988 to 2003 she was a professor at the former Presbyterian Occidental College in Los Angeles and dean. After converting to Roman Catholic , she completed a master's degree in moral theology at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana . In 2013 she received her PhD from the University of Notre Dame with an examination of Thomism for economic thinking with a focus on consumption.

Since 2011 she has taught economics and Roman Catholic theology at Villanova University in Villanova near Philadelphia , Pennsylvania .

She also teaches at the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology in Berkeley , California . She advises the Pontifical Foundation Fondazione Centesimus Annus pro Pontifice and the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace .

Hirschfeld's research interests lie in the field of economics, especially feminist economics and heterodox approaches to economic theory. Another focus is social ethics and social teaching.

She is the author of several academic papers on economics in The Review of Economics and Statistics , Journal of Economic Education , History of Political Economy and on moral theology in the Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics .

honors and awards

  • 2005–2010 - Presidential Fellowship, University of Notre Dame
  • 2010–2011 - Charlotte W. Newcombe Dissertation Fellowship
  • 2010–2011 - Graduate Fellow, Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Studies
  • 2019 - International Prize “Economy and Society” of the Pontifical Foundation Centesimus Annus Pro Pontifice (CAPP) for her work “Aquinas and the Market. Toward a Humane Economy "

Fonts

  • Three Essays on the Behavior of British Interest Rates, 1870-1913. (Dissertation 1989)
  • Virtuous Consumption in a Dynamic Economy: a Thomistic Engagement with Neoclassical Economics. (Dissertation 2013)
  • together with Paul Oslington: Recent Developments in Economics and Religion , Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd 2018, ISBN 978-1783470068
  • Aquinas and the Market. Toward a humane economy. , Harvard University Press 2018, ISBN 978-0674986404

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Entry Mary Hirschfeld , University of Notre Dame , accessed April 18, 2019
  2. ↑ Vatican: Centesimus Annus Prize awarded , Vatican News of May 29, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Hirschfeld, Mary
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hirschfeld, Mary Lee; Hirschfeld, Mary L.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American economist and Roman Catholic theologian
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century