- The Consortium for the Economic Study of Religion has launched a new academic society, the Association for the Study of Religion, Economics, and Culture. ASREC will begin its membership drive in February 2004. For more information or to join, click on ASREC.
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Sponsored by grants from the John Templeton Foundation and the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, the 2nd annual conference on Religion, Economics, and Culture was held October 2003 in Norfolk, VA. Click here to read an account of this conference.
- The 2004 Conference on Religion, Economics, and Culture will be held October 21-24 in Kansas City. Click here for the Call for Papers.
- Work by ASREC advisory board member Eli Berman and ASREC Chairman Laurence R. Iannaccone was featured in the January 17, 2004 issue of The Economist. Click here to read this article.
- The Winter 2004 issue of Ideas into Action, a publication of the
Mercatus Center, featured an article on CESR and its general director,
Laurence R. Iannaccone. Click
here to read this
article.
- Laurence Iannaccone is teaching a new seminar this fall on "Religion, Economics, and Culture" (Econ 895). This discussion-oriented course will cover a variety of topics and will emphasize papers to be presented at the 2004 REC meetings. Enrolled students will also attend the REC conference. For more information about the course, contact Laurence Iannaccone ("larry at econzone dot com").