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Economics

Coalition of the Developing: Can regional trade agreements on the African continent lead to development?

| January 7, 2020 | Young Scholars

Coalition of the Developing: Can regional trade agreements on the African continent lead to development?
Mary Katherine Lederer was a 2018-2019 Young Scholar Awards Program recipient. She attended the University of Notre Dame and majored in economics and political science. Still struggling to attain stable political regimes, sound economic institutions, and greater...
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Mary Katherine Lederer
Mary Katherine Lederer was a 2018-2019 Young Scholar for the Initiative on Faith and Public Life and is a senior at the University of Notre Dame majoring in economics and political science.

China Holds No Cards

| December 11, 2019 | Blog Contributor

China Holds No Cards
It was 2 a.m., and my father and I had finally settled down for our flight from Shanghai to Beijing. Bleary-eyed, I was about to drift off to sleep, when I felt a tap on my shoulder. I hadn’t realized it, but there was a Chinese teenager more or less my age sitting...
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Alexander Hale
Alexander Hale was selected as a 2019 Blog Contributor for the Faith & Public Life blog and is a junior business fellow majoring in finance, political science, and philosophy at Baylor University, while also pursuing a great texts minor within the Baylor honors program.

On the Correlation of Capitalism and Christianity

| December 2, 2019 | Blog Contributor

On the Correlation of Capitalism and Christianity
“He that will not work shall not eat.” With these famous words pulled from 2 Thessalonians 3:10, Capt. John Smith uttered a phrase that both saved Jamestown and breathed a capitalistic nature into the very fabric of American society. Nearly 300 years later, German...
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Grant Dunnavan
Grant Dunnavan was selected as a 2019 Blog Contributor for the Faith & Public Life blog and is a junior at Wheaton College where he studies international relations.