Brian J. A. Boyd is the research assistant director of the Center for Ethics and Economic Justice at Loyola University New Orleans. His teaching explores the nature and pursuit of the good life, approached philosophically as human flourishing and theologically in light of Catholic Social Teaching. The importance of material goods to well-being leads him to focus on economic justice, understood in theory so as to be lived in practice. He is a James Buchanan Fellow of the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, a member of the International Society for MacIntyrean Enquiry, and a consultant to the journal The New Atlantis.