Rev. Sirico and Today’s Major Discussions on Ethics and Economics
Rev. Robert A. Sirico is a leading US intellectual, co-founder of the Acton Institute of the United States. Author of various works such as the recent book “Defending the Free Market”, as president of the Acton Institute Sirico is a regular lecturer at universities, schools and business organizations on religious, political, economic and social subjects. He also publishes regularly in prominent media such as New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Forbes, London Financial Times, etc. He has studied at the Catholic University of America, the University of Southern California and the University of London. As Mario Silar pointed out, the defense of economic freedom for Sirico is not a matter for wielding a superfluous vision thinking that the markets in themselves sill solve all society´s problems, but rather that “it is a question of asking: ¿what is freedom for? And to understand this question, you have to understand what man is made for, exploring the complex and delicate relationship between political freedom, economic freedom and religious freedom”. In Sirico´s own words: “The people need jobs, jobs come from the world of business and businesses need economic freedom and opportunities in order to be created”.
Fr. Robert Sirico is a catholic priest, co-founder and president of the Acton Institute in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and author of several works. He has obtained a Magister Divinitatis from the Catholic University of America, an honorary doctorate in Christian Ethics from the Franciscan University of Steubenville and a doctorate in Social Sciences from the Francisco Marroquin University. He is member of the Mont Pelerin Society, the American Academy of Religion, the Philadelphia Society and the National Policy Council. For more than 30 years he has promoted a free economy and a limited government, not only as the best way to satisfy material needs of society, but also as the surest protection of human dignity against invasion by the government. P. Sirico has dual Italian and U.S.A. citizenship.
He has an outstanding career in the world of ideas, having been CEO and president of Atlas Network from 1991 to 2018. He is president and founder of the Hispanic American Center of Economic Research; columnist for Forbes; member of the board of directors of Fraser Institute, Canada, member of the Mont Pelerin Society since 1980, and president of the Philadelphia Society (2017-2018). He is recognized worldwide for his studies on the economic thought of the Thomists and the Scholastics. He is a graduate of Grove City College and the UCA, and holds a PhD in Economics from the International College of California. Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty is an ecumenical non-profit organization that promotes the benefits of a free economy in religious communities, professionals and educators. With international scope, Acton develops a strong task in communication and events focused on providing a moral foundation for the market economy. Completely independent of parties or governments, Acton works transversally with all religions, including Christianity, Judaism and Islam. Registration