The Boundaries of Technique: Ordering Positive and Normative Concerns in Economic Research

by Andrew Yuengert

The Boundaries of Technique offers an account of economics as a purposive - that is, human - enterprise. It draws on a thorough account of human action in the work of Saint Thomas Aquinas and Aristotle. Both authors give an account of reason in human action, and the place of technique in moral life. Yuengert uses categories such as prudence, judgment, as well as Aristotelian-Thomist technique to distinguish positive economics and normative economics. This book goes a long way toward opening up crucial questions about economic What is it? How is it done? What is its end result?

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First published January 1, 2004