Family Life Series (Tuesday)
Jennifer Roback Morse
- Tuesday, February 11, 2014
- 9:30–10:20 a.m. Pacific
- Calvary Chapel
- Hosted By: Spiritual Development
- Open to: Students
Cost and Admission
This event is free to attend.
Speakers
Jennifer Roback Morse
Jennifer Roback Morse, Ph.D., is Founder and President of the Ruth Institute. Dr Morse was
selected one of the nine top Catholics of the Year in 2013. She discovered an assumption made
by Adam Smith, the founder of modern-day economics. Smith took for granted that somehow
helpless children grow into functioning adults capable of making contracts, keeping promises
and having empathy for others. In other words, she discovered that the economy depends on
the intact family raising children. Religious thinkers and ordinary moms and dads knew this all
along, but Dr. Morse brought this common sense observation into direct contact with economic
analysis. This discovery, which she fully develops in her seminal work Love and Economics, is
the basis for all of her subsequent work promoting what are now called “socially conservative”
issues.
In addition to Love and Economics: It Takes a Family to Raise a Village (2001), Dr Morse is
also the author of Smart Sex: Finding Lifelong Love in a Hook-up World (2005) and in 2013,
with Betsy Kerekes, 101 Tips for a Happier Marriage: Simple Ways for Couples to Grow
Closer to God and One Another.
Dr. Morse earned her Ph.D. in Economics at the University of Rochester in 1980. She taught
economics at Yale University and George Mason University. She has served as a Research
Fellow for the Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty and has held fellowships at
Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, Cornell Law School, and the University of Chicago’s
economics department.
She founded the Ruth Institute in 2008 to help religiously serious students understand why a free
society requires socially conservative values, with marriage being the centerpiece around which
the rest revolve.
Questions?
Contact:
(562) 903-4874
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