Andrew M. Yuengert

Andrew M. Yuengert is the Blanche Seaver Chair of Social Science, and Professor of Economics at Pepperdine University. His research investigates the intersection of economics, virtue ethics, and Catholic social thought. His most recent book is Approximating Prudence: Aristotelian Practical Wisdom and Economic Models of Choice (Palgrave Macmillan).

August 9, 2020
The Human Person

August 9, 2020
Coronavirus

The Pandemic and Practical Wisdom

By Andrew M. Yuengert

COVID-19 underscores our need for practical wisdom, which allows us to pursue the human good even when we lack technical mastery of a situation and when we must make difficult decisions between competing goods.

October 31, 2019
Business & Economics, Politics & Law

October 31, 2019
Economics, Politics

The Myth of Technocratic Infallibility

By Andrew M. Yuengert

We need good measures of economic activity, but we must not presume that these measurements are impervious to political pressures, as though they were no more than the product of certain methods.

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