Guest speakers (right to left), John Meyer, Duncan Watts, Charles Sabel, and Session III Moderator, Mabel Berezin

Conference audience

Guest speaker, Paul DiMaggio of Princeton University, presents "Our Franklins, Our Selves: Benjamin Franklin the Protestant Ethic, and Economic Sociology"

Guest speaker, Mark Granovetter of Stanford University, presents "The Social Construction of Corruption"

Mark Granovetter's paper (.pdf)

Guest speaker, Russell Hardin of New York University, presents "The Systemic Anti-Culture of Capitalism"

Russell Hardin's paper (.pdf)

Guest speaker, Byron Johnson of Baylor University, presents "The Long-Term Monetary Effects of Religious Programs on Prisoner Recidivism"

Graduate students, Jennifer Lauture and John Scott

Guest speaker, Barnaby Marsh of Oxford University and The John Templeton Foundation, presents "Spiritual Capital and Economic Behaviour"

Guest speaker, John Meyer of Stanford University, presents the paper he co-authored with Ronald Jepperson (University of Tulsa), "Analytical Individualism in Macrosocial Explanation: The 'Protestant Ethic Thesis' as Ideology"

Guest speaker, Michael Novak of the American Enterprise Institute, presents "Reaching up to Weber -- And Beyond: The Moral Ecology of Liberty" . Conference Session III Moderator, Mabel Berezin is in foreground

Guest speaker, Charles Sabel of Columbia University, presents "Deliberate Choices, Not Blessed Endowment: Rethinking Weber's 'The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalisml' in Light of the Missteps and Promising Leads in Research on Economic Develoment"

Guest speaker, John Schneider of Calvin College, presents "Is Christianity an 'Iron Cage' for Capitalism?"

Guest speaker, Brian Spooner of the University of Pennsylvania, presents "Religion, Culture, and the Market in the Age of Globalization"

Guest speaker, Richard Swedberg of Cornell University, presents "Tocqueville on the Spirit of American Capitalism"

Richard Swedberg's paper (.pdf)

Drs. John and Josephine Templeton, Jr. attended the two-day conference

Guest speaker, Duncan Watts of Columbia University, presents "Collective Dynamics of Belief"

Guest speaker, Duncan Watts of Columbia University, and conference co-organizer and speaker, Richard Swedberg.

Conference speakers, Richard Swedberg and Mark Granovetter

Conference organizer, Victor Nee and speaker, Mark Granovetter

Conference speakers, Barnaby Marsh and Richard Swedberg, and participant

Conference participant, Dean Edward Lawler and speaker Russell Hardin

Conference participants, Arnout van de Rijt and Shelley Correll

Conference speaker, Barnaby Marsh and Dr. Josephine Templeton

Conference speaker, Charles Sabel

Dr. John M. Templeton, Jr. and Conference speaker, Robert J. Barro

Cornell Sociology Professors Shelley Correll and Mabel Berezin

Conference coffee break

Cornell President and Conference Introductory Speaker, Jeffrey Lehman

Conference Keynote Speaker, Francis Fukuyama

Conference audience

Conference audience (Professor John Bishop)

Conference speaker, Charles Sabel and moderator, Mabel Berezin

Conference audience

Conference moderator, Economics Professor, Ravi Kanbur

Conference organizer, Victor Nee

Conference speaker, John Meyer

Conference speaker, Paul DiMaggio

Cornell Philisophy Professor, Richard Miller

Conference audience

Conference speakers, Francis Fukuyama, Barnaby Marsh, and Victor Nee

Conference speaker, Paul DiMaggio and moderator, Mabel Berezin

Graduate student, Paul Lee

Cornell President Jeffrey Lehman

Cornell President Jeffrey Lehman

Conference speaker, Byron Johnson

Dr. Josephine Templeton