This Thursday 10/27, in light of the financial crisis and the recent Occupy Wall Street movement, TRACT is hosting a panel discussion "Financial Crisis or Humanity Crisis?" between Economics Professor Marcellus Andrews and Religion Professor Robert Thurman.
Professor Andrews and Professor Thurman will be discussing and debating the human factors behind the financial crisis, devling into the fields of education, ethics, psychology, and philosophy.
This discussion will try to convey that to solve our current economic problems we must go beyond mere discussions of financial models, economics theory, or public policy. Perhaps, the inherent problems lie within ourselves and we must change our own individual moral orientation towards society.
Questions include:
- What is the cause of the financial crisis?
- What is the function of our economy? What is its goal?
- What are the values intrinsic to our economic system?
- Is the financial crisis, and on a larger scope, the large disparity between the rich and the poor, an allowed and legitimate outcome of our economic and political systems?
- What, if anything, should be changed about our current system?
- How should we as individuals react to the financial crisis? Do we need to change in any way?
