Update - Tuesday, 5:00 PM: The full menu of lecture recordings is now available. We’ll likely post some video of the evening speakers as well sometime this week. Enjoy!

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It’s hard to believe, but AU 2008 has come to a close. From a staff perspective, it’s a strange feeling after a week of nonstop running (and in my case, sweating) to realize that, by golly, I don’t have any lectures to record tomorrow!

A hearty thanks goes out to all of this year’s participants from around the world, as does a fond farewell. A big part of what makes AU great is the quality of the people who come to Grand Rapids for a week in order to engage the big ideas that are presented in the lectures below. We hope to see many of you back in 2009.

And I’d be remiss if I failed to acknowledge the amazing work of Kara Eagle and her army of staff and interns, without whom the impossible task of planning, organizing, and actually putting on AU would remain impossible.

Tuesday, June 10

• Thoughts on Human Dignity - Rev. Robert A. Sirico

Wednesday, June 11

• Economic Thought Before the Enlightenment - Dr. Stephen Grabill
• Traditionalist Economics: A Critique - Jeffrey Tucker
• Wealth and Poverty in Scripture - Dr. Jonathan Witt
• Enemies of the Inner City - Ismael Hernandez
• The Limits of Markets: Law and Moral Culture - Fr. Peter Laird
• Civil Rights and Social Cooperation - Rev. Robert A. Sirico
• Tensions in 18th Century Social Thought - Michael Miller
• The Economic Way of Thinking - Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse
• Christianity and the Idea of Limited Government - Michael Miller
• Myths About the Market - Dr. Jay Richards
• Why Keynesianism Failed - Dr. Victor Claar
• 19th Century Christian Political Thought - Dr. Carlos Hoevel

Thursday, June 12

• A Theology of Stewardship - Dr. Stephen Grabill
• The Catholic Social Encyclical Tradition - Kishore Jayabalan
• Market Economics and the Family - Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse
• Economics and Human Action - Dr. Carlos Hoevel
• A Biblical Approach to the Environment - Dr. Jay Richards
• Islam, Markets, and the Free Society - Mustafa Akyol
• Beyond Contracts: Marriage and Sustainable Markets - Dr. Jennifer Roback Morse
• The Social Teaching of John Paul II - Fr. Roger Landry
• The Nature and Function of Money - Jeffrey Tucker
• A Theology of Market Capitalism - Lord Brian Griffiths

Friday, June 13

• The Ethics of Capital and Interest - Jeffrey Tucker
• Europe: The Future of the Social Market - Christof Zellenberg
• Latin America: Challenges and Opportunities - Dr. Carlos Hoevel
• Liberation Theology - Rev. Robert A. Sirico
• Christianity, International Law, International Institutions - Kishore Jayabalan
• The Bad News About the Prosperity Gospel - Rev. John Nunes
• Poverty in the Developing World - Michael Miller
• Business as a Moral Enterprise - John Beckett
• Divorce: Social and Economic Consequences - Fr. Paul Hartmann
• Healthcare and Markets - Grace Marie Turner
• Piety and Technique - Rev. Robert A. Sirico