- Optimism, Economic Success, and Free Markets and The Impact of Education on Optimism and Economic Success
Professor Luigi G. Zingales, Robert C. McCormack Professor of Entrepreneurship and Finance
University of Chicago Graduate School of Business (Chicago, Illinois)
- 550 MBA candidates at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business will be studied in-depth as the initial set in the Templeton Chicago MBA Longitudinal Sample. This research will consider a causal link between optimism and economic outcomes and examine how optimism contributes to the economic self-realization of individuals and the functioning of free markets.
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September 2005 |
$349,440 |
Professor Luigi G. Zingales, Robert C. McCormack Professor of Entrepreneurship and Finance
University of Chicago Graduate School of Business (Chicago, Illinois)
- 550 MBA candidates at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business will be studied in-depth as the initial set in the Templeton Chicago MBA Longitudinal Sample. This research will consider a causal link between optimism and economic outcomes and examine how optimism contributes to the economic self-realization of individuals and the functioning of free markets.
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September 2005 |
$349,440 |
- The Norms, Beliefs, and Institutions of 21st Century Capitalism: A Conference Commemorating the 100th Anniversary of Weber's The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
Victor Nee, Goldwin Smith Professor
Department of Sociology
Director, Center for the Study of Economy & Society
Cornell University (Ithaca NY)
- This conference will reexamine Max Weber's seminal arguments regarding the moral, spiritual, and aesthetic dimensions of the capitalist ethos as they relate to the beliefs, practices, and institutions associated with 21st Century global capitalism.
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January 2004 |
$135,000 |
- Project to Foster the Culture of Enterprise in an Age of Globalization
T. Kenneth Cribb, Jr., President
Intercollegiate Studies Institute (Wilmington DE)
- This grant provides incentives and rewards for future leaders from around the world to consider, in a comparative context, the traditional cultural institutions that foster character and the development of free and competitive markets. The project includes three elements: 1) an international student essay contest 2) two annual international awards, one for best book and one for best article by young scholars and 3) a major new book series.
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February 2006 |
$2,833,500 |
- Globalization Education Project
Ms. Marty Zupan, President
Institute for Humane Studies
George Mason University (Arlington VA)
- The Institute for Humane Studies [IHS], based at George Mason University, created an interactive educational website that examines college students' manifest concern about globalization and free enterprise principles, especially in relation to the alleviation of poverty. IHS also initiated essay contests and seminars as methods to address these questions. The website includes empirical research, comparative analysis, and narratives of the impact that free markets represent for impoverished people.
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January 2003 |
$280,000 |
- College-Level Teaching of Civic Concepts Necessary for Developing Character and Sustaining Freedom and Free Enterprise
T. Kenneth Cribb, Jr., President
Intercollegiate Studies Institute, Inc. [ISI] (Wilmington DE)
- This grant supported survey research, in partnership with the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research, on college-level teaching of civic concepts necessary for developing character and sustaining free enterprise. The research report, titled The Coming Crisis in Citizenship, was released on September 26, 2006, at the National Press Club.
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August 2004 |
$1,000,000 |
- Establishing the Spiritual Enterprise Institute
Dr. Theodore Roosevelt Malloch, Executive Director
Spiritual Enterprise Institute, Inc. (Palm Beach Gardens FL)
- This grant helped to establish the Spiritual Enterprise Institute [SEI], an organization dedicated to exploring the intersection of business, the economy, and spirituality. One aim of the Institute is to stimulate new thinking on the importance of "spiritual capital."
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August 2005 |
$2,000,000 |
- Individual Liberty and Economic Freedom as Essential to Social Institutions: Lecture Series to Elucidate Catholic Social Thought in Centesimus Annus
Dr. Samuel Gregg
Director of Research
Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty (Grand Rapids MI)
- This funding supports a lecture series, scholarship program, and outreach effort to commemorate the 15th anniversary of the late John Paul II's social encyclical Centesimus Annus, which opened new horizons in the area of Catholic social teaching. Eight of the nine lectures will be held in Rome and one will be held in Lublin, Poland.
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October 2005 |
$375,000 |
