Vincentian Center for Church and Society

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).