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Daniel Rush Finn
Self-Interest, Markets and the Four Problems of Economic Life
Clemens Lecture Series 3, 1989
Dr. Daniel Rush Finn was appointed to the William E. and Virginia Clemens Chair in Economics and the Liberal Arts beginning with the 1989-90 school year, succeeding the retiring Dr. Stephen T. Worland, the first occupant of the Chair. Dr. Finn earned the Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics at Saint John Fisher College, Rochester, NY, and did his graduate work at the University of Chicago, completing the M.A. in economics and the Ph.D. in religious social ethics, with an interdisciplinary dissertation on the ethical presuppositions of utility theory within the history of economic thought. He has held a joint appointment in both economics and theology at Saint John's for the past thirteen years.
Finn has writen numerous articles, book reviews and chapters in anthologies on topics relating to economics and ethics within both economics and religious ethics. He is author, along with Prentiss Pemberton, of "Toward a Christian Economic Ethic: Stewardship and Social Power." He has been an active member of professional societies in both fields, serving as President of the Association for Social Economics and on the Board of Directors of the Society of Christian Ethics. He has also served as President of the Midwest Association of Theological Schools and Vice-President of the Minnesota consortium of Theological Schools. He was Chair of the Department of Economics and Business Administration at Saint John's from 1982-84 and was Dean of the School of Theology from 1984-89.