Approximating Prudence

ANDREW YUENGERT is a Professor of Economics at Seaver College, Pepperdine University, USA. Professor Yuengert has made research contributions in several fields: economic philosophy, Catholic social teaching, the empirical study of religion, labour economics, and finance. He was recently editor of the journal Faith & Economics. He is the author of two previous books: The Boundaries of Technique: Ordering Positive and Normative Concerns in Economic Research (2004), and Inhabiting the Land: A Case for the Right to Migrate (2004). His most recent essay is 'Roman Catholic Economics,' in The Oxford Handbook of Christianity and Economics (2012). He and his wife Elizabeth have three children, and live in Southern California.

Chapter 1 - Practical Wisdom and Economic Models of Choice * Chapter 2 - Is There Anything Economics Cannot Do? The Need for a Background Account * Chapter 3 - Practical Wisdom, or Thinking about What to Do * Chapter 4 - Objective Functions and the Goals of Human Action * Chapter 5 - Contingency and Uncertainty * Chapter 6 - Modeling Virtue * Chapter 7 - The Synthetic Nature of Choice * Chapter 8 - The Unformulability of Practical wisdom * Chapter 9 - Conclusions