Archive for Category: "Economics"
CSA: A Distributist Agrarianism
After quitting my job as a school teacher in 2010 to become a full-time organic farmer, I was left with a dilemma. I was quite certain that I could grow high quality produce, but what was I going to do with it?
A Review of All the Devils Are Here
One of the great myths of the subprime mortgage bubble was that it was brought about because of government regulation. Most of that activity was refinancing existing mortgages or home equity mortgages, and most was done in a way that was almost entirely unregulated.
A Final Christmas Reflection: Distributism in Popular Christmas Films
The ends of Dickens and Capra are the same. They are both opposed to the errors of the economists, to the rabid individualism and “enlightened” self-interest which supposedly make society better, but in reality produce the family under the bridge.
Is Usury Still a Sin?
One can certainly find a nearly universal practical neglect of the question of usury, but one looks in vain to find that the Church ever retracted, abrogated, or substantially altered her teaching on usury.
Heinrich Pesch on Solidarist Economics
Solidarism, as Pesch intends, is the understanding that man is an individual person and a member of the community. For Pesch, man is not solely an individual and not only a cog in a machine; he is the composite or an integration of the two.
John Médaille: l’économiste du distributisme
John Médaille fait ainsi ressortir le fait que le capitalisme libéral et le libre marché sont… incompatibles. Selon lui, en effet, l’histoire montre que la croissance du capitalisme et du gouvernement vont de pairs.
Catholics, Distributism and Occupy Wall Street
Although most people focus on dissent from dogmatic truths and in certain areas of moral theology, such as contraception or abortion, the social doctrine of the Church is another area in which Catholics have failed to espouse the Church’s teaching.
Is Distributism a Form of Capitalism?
Since both Distributism and Capitalism operate on the basis of private ownership of productive capital, we need to look beyond this one common root and realize that neither of these economic systems is wholly defined by it.
A Message for the Home
Just as our grandfathers once faced hard choices, let us be remembered as the men and women who resurrected the economy of “many small places and many local heroes.”