Our guest Dr. Catherine Pakaluk shares insights from her research on women who choose to have large families in the face of societal trends, emphasizing the personal motivations and faith that drive these decisions. The discussion also touches on the surprising connection between child-rearing and the entrepreneurial mindset, why "pronalist" policies to date have not worked, and why Economics always needs a realistic understanding of the sources of prosperity for families and societies to flourish.

• Read Catherine Pakaluk's book, ⁠Hannah's Children: The Women Quietly Defying the Birth Dearth⁠.
• Register for the FREE March 21st meeting of the ⁠Family Business Consortium⁠ at ⁠this link.⁠
• Dr. Pakaluk's nightstand reading: ⁠Cancer Ward⁠ by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
• Her classroom reading: Schumpeter's ⁠Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy ⁠;
• She's hoping to read: ⁠They Flew⁠ by Carlos Eire.
• Learn more about the Ciocca Center for Principled Entrepreneurship at Catholic University's Busch School of Business at ⁠CioccaCenter.com⁠. Take our free video course, ⁠The Gospel of Work⁠! 

• Learn more about Andreas at ⁠⁠Andreas Widmer⁠⁠

Prosper Podcast is a production of the⁠ ⁠Ciocca Center for Principled Entrepreneurship⁠⁠ at Catholic University of America