Novak Award Recipient Abela Calls for Greater Moral Engagement in the Market Place at Acton Institute's Washington Lecture

Novak Award Recipient Abela Calls for Greater Moral Engagement in the Market
Place at Acton Institute's Washington Lecture

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., Oct. 5 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Professor Andrew V.
Abela of Catholic University of America will give the 9th annual Calihan
Lecture on Thursday, October 8, at the University's Pryzbyla Student Center in
Washington. Abela will speak on "Consumerism, Subsidiarity, and the Market."
The Calihan Lecture is delivered by the recipient of the Novak Award, a
$10,000 prize.

Andrew Abela is an Associate Professor of Marketing and Chair of the
Department of Business and Economics at the Catholic University of America in
Washington. His main areas of interest include consumerism, marketing ethics,
Catholic Social Teaching, and internal marketing communication. A frequent
guest on television and radio programs, Dr. Abela has recently addressed such
issues as the moral underpinnings of capitalism, the current financial crisis
and ethics in advertising. Dr. Abela is also widely published in academic and
professional journals, including The Journal of Marketing, The Journal of the
Academy of Marketing Science, and The Journal of Markets & Morality.

The Novak Award is named after the theologian and social philosopher, Michael
Novak. The award acknowledges and rewards those who, relatively early in
their academic careers, have made significant contributions to the study of
the relationship between religion and economic liberty, and who are deemed
likely to make further important contributions. Recipients of the Novak Award
make a formal presentation on such issues at an annual public forum known as
the Calihan Lecture. The Novak award forms part of a range of scholarships and
awards available from the Acton Institute. Details of these scholarships may
be found at www.acton.org/programs/students/.

About the Acton Institute
The Acton Institute is a nonprofit, ecumenical think tank located in Grand
Rapids, Michigan. The Institute works internationally to "promote a free and
virtuous society characterized by individual liberty and sustained by
religious principles." For more on the Acton Institute, please visit
www.acton.org

SOURCE Acton Institute

Charissa Romens of the Acton Institute, +1-616-454-3080, cromens@acton.org