The discipline of economics provides a powerful set of tools for understanding human behavior, human prosperity, and the wealth and poverty of nations. Its findings have implications far beyond markets and trade, affecting most social institutions, including politics, culture, human psychology, and perhaps even morality. This Summer Institute, to take place from July 31 to August 10, seeks to understand how the basic facts of economic history and philosophy illuminate historical and current questions about human social life and how these facts can guide our thinking about deep and enduring questions of material well-being, moral virtue, and the human good. View the program flyer here. Please contact tikvahecon@tikvahfund.org with questions.

For nearly a century Columbia Business School has been educating leaders in the theory and practice of business, and today Columbia is widely acknowledged as one of the top business schools in the world. The school has steadily expanded its international reach and recently launched a series of curriculum and program initiatives specifically focused on the global business demands of the twenty-first century. Columbia’s location in New York City provides unparalleled opportunities for education, culture, and entertainment.

The Institute will be led by three prominent scholars in the fields of economic and financial history and thought: Professor Charles Calomiris of the Columbia Business School and the Columbia School of International and Public Affairs, Professor James Otteson of Yeshiva University, and Professor Stephen Haber of Stanford University and the Hoover Institution. Students will spend mornings in the study and discussion of classic texts of economics and their implications for fundamental issues of economic, political, and soocial life. Afternoon discussions will apply these ideas to questions of policy and will include conversations with leading outside scholars in the field.