Executive Director Gary Hoover spoke on inequality and the social contract on the first day of Adam Smith Week, held by the College of Charleston. The fourteenth annual Adam Smith Week was topically organized around diversity and inclusion. Talks by scholars and professionals from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, George Mason University, South Carolina for Criminal Justice Reform, the College of Charleston, Concordia University Chicago, and Winston-Salem State University rounded out the week.
Watch Hoov's talk, "When Economic Inequality Violates the Social Contract," here.
Established in memory of Charles H. Murphy, Sr. (1870-1954), and inspired by the vision of Charles H. Murphy, Jr. (1920-2002), The Murphy Institute exists to help Tulane faculty and students understand economic, moral, and political problems we all face and think about. More important, it exists to help us understand how these problems have come to be so closely interconnected.
