The Association of Christian Economists invites members to submit scholarly papers for consideration for inclusion in the ACE sessions scheduled for the 2024 ASSA meetings. Submissions of individual papers, complete academic sessions, or panels are invited.
Deadline: Friday April 14, 2023.
Submissions should address topics of interest to Christian economists. Such topics include but are not limited to: environmental economics, health, education, financial markets, trade, public choice, inequality, development, labor, taxation, the economics of religion, and theology and economics.
Papers/sessions should be scholarly in nature, and should not have already appeared in print at the time of the ASSA meeting.
Members submitting complete sessions or panels may include participants (paper presenters, discussants, and panelists) who are not members of the Association and who respect the goals and purposes of ACE.
Submission process:
Email all submissions to Sarah Hamersma at sehamers@syr.edu. Please put “ACE 2024 submission” in the email subject line.
Submissions will be evaluated by the ACE Executive Board and others selected by the Executive Board as necessary to evaluate specific proposals.
Questions? Contact ACE Vice President Sarah Hamersma, sehamers@syr.edu.
ACE members are invited to submit papers for possible inclusion in a Presidential Session at the Southern Economic Association (Nov 2023 in New Orleans). The session will be organized by ACE member Ngina Chiteji. The attached call for papers provides details and contact information; submissions need to arrive to her by March 20 to be considered. We look forward to seeing what you’d like to share with ACE and the SEA!
The ACE Executive Board is enormously pleased to announce that due to the generosity of friends of the Association who wish to remain anonymous, ACE has received a $150,000 gift.
The donors’ over-arching desire is to provide resources that will enable ACE to better fulfill its mission. With mutual agreement between the ACE Board and the donors formalized in a memorandum of understanding, the funds are targeted to be spent over five years in the following ways: administrative assistance, conference sponsorship, website development, and stipends for the editor-in-chief of Faith & Economics and other ACE leaders.
All of this has the potential to be transformative. The administrative assistant will assist with conference arrangements, software integration for dues and membership purposes, and grant-seeking. (For convenience this staffer will be housed at Hope College, though that is not a requirement of the grant). The Executive Board is thinking in terms of three conferences, the first of which is the summer 2023 conference. We expect that one of the other conferences will be geared to current graduate students in economics.
Please pray with the us over the months and years ahead that we steward the gift wisely, that we lean into our mission, and that we impact a new generation of Christian economists.
The Economic Humanist Group together with the Institute of Leadership and Social Ethics (ISLE) invites submissions of abstracts and papers for consideration for inclusion in their jointly hosted conference on the topic of:
Economics and Human Flourishing: (What) Can Economists Learn from Theology?
Conference to be held at the Leuven Center of Christian Studies in Leuven Belgium on June 30 and July 1st, 2023.
Call for papers Deadline: January 31, 2023
Details about submission requirements can be found here.
Two parallel workshop tracks
Track A: To explore the potential shared anthropological ground between economics and theology, inviting contributions from disciplines including theology, anthropology, philosophy (e.g. personalism), and history of ideas.
Track B: Specifically designed for scholars trained in the (formal) language of economic models. Asking how insights from other disciplines with a richer understanding of anthropology can feed in ideas to economists, whilst allowing them to treat those insights within the ‘epistemic culture’ of economics, based to a considerable degree on mathematical modeling.
Bryan College, a regionally-accredited, Christian Liberal Arts Institution, along with the Business and Economics Department, seeks applications from persons interested in a non-tenure Economics, Finance and/or Accounting full-time teaching position to begin August 2023. This position includes instruction at the general survey, upper-division, and graduate levels in the School of Professional Studies.
Please view the link below for additional details:
Economics for the Common Good: The Work of Christian Economists
A conference sponsored by:
The Association of Christian Economists & The Department of Economics and Business at Hope College
Conference Dates: July 20th to 22nd 2023 Submissions Due: January 15th 2023
The economics discipline is at the center of some of the biggest questions that humans face, including those about poverty, wealth, the role of the state, inequality, growth, the cost of living, migration, education, and family. Christian thinking has often motivated scholars to delve deeply into these important questions, sometimes offering a distinct way of approaching our pursuit of the common good. In order to explore Christian’s work in the discipline of economics, and to spur Christian thinking about economic topics, the Association of Christian Economists invites all interested scholars to join us for an academic conference at Hope College in Holland, MI, in July of 2022.
Paul OslingtonDaniel HungermanSarah Hamersma
The conference will feature three plenary lectures by Paul Oslington (Alphacrucis University College), Sarah Hamersma (Syracuse University), and Daniel Hungerman (University of Notre Dame), as well as concurrent sessions featuring presentations by economists from a variety of Christian theological and economic traditions. We welcome papers that are theoretical, empirical, historical, or philosophical in nature, as well as proposals for panel sessions around a theme of general interest. We welcome papers that specifically address the relationship between faith and economic reasoning as well as those that use conventional economic analysis to investigate questions of interest. Selected papers from the conference will appear in Faith & Economics, the journal of the Association of Christian Economists.
Instructions
Individual paper submissions should include a title, author, and abstract. Full paper drafts are welcome. Complete session proposals are encouraged and should include title/author/abstract for 3 to 4 speakers. Panel sessions that do not include research presentations should include a title, a detailed description of the topic to be discussed, and the proposed participants. All questions and submissions should be emailed to conference@christianeconomists.org. First priority will be given to submissions received before January 15th, 2023.
Submissions from graduate students are encouraged. Students can attend at a discounted rate, and there is a limited pool of travel support available for students whose papers are accepted. Please indicate your desire to apply for this support in an email to conference@christianeconomists.org.
Location
Hope College’s campus, green and full of bursting flower beds in July, abuts Holland’s attractive downtown with its many shops, restaurants, and brew pubs. The beautiful sandy beaches of Lake Michigan are close by. We anticipate a convivial time of scholarly discussion, fellowship, and conversation over the course of the meetings.
This page will be updated with information about registration, lodging, and other details as they become available.
We are excited to announce that after 3 years, the ACE Luncheon is back in person!
Please RSVP for the annual ACE fellowship luncheon by completing this survey. Your timely RSVP allows us to provide an accurate headcount which is required by the restaurant by year end. An accurate headcount allows ACE to be more prudent with resources.
The lunch will be held on Saturday, January 7th, 2023, from 12:30 – 2 pm, between our two sponsored sessions. It will be hosted at a nearby restaurant (Deanie’s Seafood – French Quarter). The restaurant is a short walk (0.3 miles) from the Marriott (location of our sessions.)
Menu:
Appetizers:
Seafood Gumbo – Award Winning gumbo with shrimp, crabmeat, okra and oysters.
Bucktown Blues Salad – Romaine hearts, Danish blue cheese crumbles, spiced pecan pieces and Deanie’s original Fig Vinigrette
Entrees:
Seafood Platter – Fresh golden fried shrimp, catfish, oysters, and crawfish croquettes. Served with French Fries and Coleslaw
Barbeque Shrimp Pasta – Linguine pasta tossed with Louisiana shrimp and a creamy style New Orleans style barbeque sauce. Served with garlic brea.
Grilled Chicken Breast – served with vegetables and potatoes
Dessert:
Homemade Cheesecake – Creamy homemade cheesecake on a graham cracker and pecan crust. Topped with a strawberry puree
Drink options include fountain drinks, coffee, tea and water. Gluten free and vegetarian options are available by request (which can be communicated via the survey above).
Advance Payment
The total cost of the meal including tax and tip is $55 per person. Click below to prepay for your luncheon (which would be a great help!) We will be collecting payments (cash, credit card, or check) at the luncheon as well.
We have two sessions as well as a luncheon and business meeting set for the ASSA meetings in January. If you are attending the conference we would love to see you at one or all of these. The details are here. For the paper abstracts, check out the ASSA program here, and filter for sessions sponsored by the Association of Christian Economists.
ACE Fellowship Luncheon and Business Meeting
Saturday, Jan. 7, 2023 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM Deanie’s Seafood Restaurant – French Quarter, 841 Iberville Street, New Orleans, LA
Saturday, Jan. 7, 2023 10:15 AM – 12:15 PM New Orleans Marriott – Preservation Hall Studio 10 Chair: Stephen Smith, Hope College
Panelist(s)
Robert C. Tatum – University of North Carolina-Asheville Judith M. Dean – Brandeis University Brent P. Waters – Garrett Evangelical Theological Seminary Andrew M. Yuengert – Pepperdine University
JEL Classifications
F6 – Economic Impacts of Globalization
F5 – International Relations, National Security, and International Political Economy
Saturday, Jan. 7, 2023 2:30 PM – 4:30 PM New Orleans Marriott – Preservation Hall Studio 10 Chair: Kira M. Villa, University of New Mexico
Floods, Women’s Outcomes and Infant Mortality: Evidence from Three Countries in Africa Berenger Djoumessi Tiague, University of Minnesota
Long-term Impacts of Exposure to Natural Disasters during Childhood and Adolescence: Evidence from Indonesia Mengqi Liu, Gordon College Kira M. Villa, University of New Mexico
Why Programs Fail: Lessons for Improving Public Service Quality from a Mixed-Methods Evaluation of an Unsuccessful Teacher Training Program in Nepal Julie A. Schaffner, Tufts University Paul Glewwe, University of Minnesota Uttam Sharma, Institute for Social and Environmental Research – Nepal
Digital Training for Micro-Entrepreneurs: Experimental Evidence from Guatemala Manuel Alejandro Estefan Davila, University of Notre Dame
The School of Business and Communication of the Master’s University seeks a Professor of Agricultural Business. Additional job description can be found in the attached.
Colorado Christian University (CCU) is offering a new fully online MS Economics degree that focuses on the global arena and economic development while giving graduate students a strong foundation in quantitative competencies. CCU is also offering an online MBA with an Emphasis in Economics. CCU would like to offer graduating seniors from Christian Colleges a tuition discount if their Christian College is willing to promote CCU programs to their undergraduate students. Please contact Connie Ostwald at costwald@ccu.edu for more information on a mutually beneficial partnership.
