Daniel K. Finn

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Professor of Theology and the William E. and Virginia Clemens Chair in Economics and the Liberal Arts

St. John’s University, Collegeville, MN.

Daniel Finn holds a dual appointment in Theology and Economics from St. John’s University in Collegeville, MN. He is a Professor of Moral Theology in The School of Theology and is The William E. & Virginia Clemens Professor of Economics & the Liberal Arts in the Department of Economics. He has held leadership positions in the Society of Christian Ethics the Catholic Theological Society of America and the Association for Social Economics. With Paul Caron, he is co-director of the Institute for Advanced Catholic Studies’ (San Diego, CA) True Wealth of Nations research project and is chair of the steering committee of a project supported by the Institute to engage the Catholic Church in Latin America to work with civil society organizations to confront government corruption. He holds a M.A. (Economics) and Ph.D. (Religious Social Ethics) from the University of Chicago. His most recent books are The Moral Dynamics of Economic Life: An Extension and Critique of Caritas in Veritate, Editor, Oxford University Press, (forthcoming), True Wealth of Nations: Catholic Social Thought and Economic Life, Editor, Oxford University Press (2010), and The Moral Ecology of Markets: Assessing Claims about Markets and Justice, Cambridge University Press (2006).

Food for Thought

A Catholic university is called to become an evermore effective instrument of cultural progress for individuals as well as for society. Included among its research activities, therefore, will be a study of serious contemporary problems in areas such as the dignity of human life, the promotion of justice for all, the quality of personal and family life, the protection of nature, the search for peace and political stability, a more just sharing in the world’s resources and a new economic and political order that will better serve the human community at a national and international level.

Pope John Paul II,
Ex Corde Ecclesiae (32)