title: Michael Shute
text: # Michael Shute
  
  Michael R. Shute (21 September 1951 - 3 January 2020 in Halifax, Nova Scotia) was a Canadian scholar and Professor of Religious Studies at Memorial University of Newfoundland. He was known for his research on the works of Bernard Lonergan and moral decision-making. Shute was a co-editor of Journal of Macrodynamic Analysis.
  
  Shute received a diagnosis of ALS. As a result, he retired from teaching in September 2019, and died on January 3, 2020.
  
  ## Books
  
  * Lonergan's Discovery of the Science of Economics, University of Toronto Press, 2010
  * Lonergan's Early Economic Research, University of Toronto Press, 2010
  * Improving Moral Decision-Making (with William Zanardi). Axial Press, 2003
  * The Origins of Lonergan's Notion of the Dialectic of History, University Press of America, 1993
  