Fall 2016 Weekend Honors Program: Entrepreneurship & Human Flourishing
The Values & Capitalism Fall 2016 Weekend Honors Program, hosted at Harvard University in Boston, MA, was an intensive seminar on business and entrepreneurship for Christian undergraduate students from secular colleges and universities.
Values & Capitalism 2017–2018 Young Scholar Awards
The Values & Capitalism Young Scholar Award program seeks to foster high-quality academic research and writing by awarding $5,000 scholarships in public policy or economics to up to six rising juniors or seniors at Christian colleges or universities.
The Common Estimation of the Market: Domingo Bañez on the Just Price
Since the University of Chicago removed courses in the history of economic thought from the list of courses required for their doctoral program in economics, the study has fallen into the shadows. Graduate and undergraduate students alike learn the standard textbook...
Dodd-Frank: Repercussions on Community Banks and Local Lending
The circulation of liquidity in an efficient financial system is undoubtedly one of the primary pillars of economic progress. For the ever-changing dynamic of the current United States economy, a well-functioning financial system is fundamentally required for growth....
Business as Usual: Challenges to Entrepreneurship in Mexico
In 2011, Mexico ranked as the hardest working industrialized country in the world; its workers averaged 45 hours per week, an additional 519 hours annually more than the typical American worker. According to the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) conducted in 2014,...
Dr. Stephen Smith Named Values & Capitalism Visiting Professor
Dr. Stephen L. S. Smith, professor of economics at Hope College, has been named the Values & Capitalism Visiting Professor for the 2016–2017 academic year. In this position, Dr. Smith will collaborate with V&C on campus events, project publications, and a number of other initiatives.
Announcing: 2016-2017 Values & Capitalism Young Scholars
Values & Capitalism is pleased to announce the recipients of our 2016-2017 Young Scholar Awards. We received a host of impressive research proposals from talented students across the country. From among those applications the following students were selected to receive a $5,000 scholarship. During the 2016-2017 school year, each Young Scholar will conduct original research on a topic of public policy or economics, with the oversight of a faculty advisor.
2016 Values & Capitalism Summer Honors Program
Over the course of June 2016, Values & Capitalism welcomed 75 Christian college students from 46 different schools to participate in the V&C Summer Honors Program—an intensive, one-week seminar, designed to educate students on various issues of public policy and economics.
2016 Values & Capitalism Summer Conference
During the weekend of June 10-12, over 170 students and professors from 53 colleges and universities gathered in Washington D.C. to engage in a series of conversations about pertinent issues facing our nation today—particularly focusing on how to approach these issues from a Christian worldview.
