Worland

The Preferential Option for the Poor: An Economist's Perspective

by Stephen T. Worland, Clemens Lecture Series 1, 1987

Introduction

Economics came into its own as an academic discipline at Saint John's when Fr. Martin Schirber, OSB, returned from Harvard with a doctorate in economics and began teaching in 1939. It was as recent as 1986 that economics was established as a department in its own right separate from business administration and accounting. In September 1987, the Clemens Chair in Economics and the Liberal Arts was established through the generosity of William and Virginia Clemens. A word about the discipline itself, about the donor and about Dr. Stephen Worland, first holder of the Clemens Chair, is in order.

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