Religion: What Does Economics Have To Do With It?

Conference given by Professor Sascha O. Becker, PhD.

20.04.2023

A popular view is that economics is about inflation, unemployment, prices, and quantities, but not about religion or culture. And surely, soft factors such as religion do not matter for economic outcomes, do they? Not surprisingly, students of economics would not typically come across these in their lectures on microeconomics, macroeconomics, or econometrics.
When economic issues are debated in the media, they do not feature  highlyeither. But religion matters for economics and vice versa. This talk will illustrate several ways in which religion still influences today’s economy and society, either directly or indirectly.

Professor Sascha  O.  Becker (FASSA) is  Xiaokai  Yang Chair of Business and Economics at Monash University, Melbourne (Australia), and part-time Professor at the University of Warwick, England. Previously, he held positions at Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU) Munich and at the University of Stirling, Scotland. He  studied Economics in Bonn, Paris, Florence, and Berkeley. His research has appeared in international journals, including the American Sociological Review, the Quarterly Journal of Economics and the American Economic Review. He is an elected Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia.

Conference in English

Please register by Wednesday 19th April 2023
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Contact: monique.kemp@lsrs.lu

Thursday 20th April 2023 – from 6.30 pm to 8.00 pm
Welcome at 6.00 pm

Hôtel Le Royal, 12 Boulevard Royal, L-2449 Luxembourg