Archive for Category: "Economics"
What Happened to Our Health Freedom?
Fifty years ago I could have bought raw milk anywhere. I could have had it delivered to my door. I could have bought raw cheese and grown anything in my garden. Today I might face a SWAT team.
Will There Be Zombies?
It is the remnant that must lead the way, must exercise that rational madness which will allow us to rebuild—if not the world—then our communities, and these functioning communities must show the world the way to rebuild itself.
The Errors of the Economists: Usury
Interest charged on non-productive loans, as typified by credit cards, home mortgages, and personal car loans, are usurious. They are charging for both the use and sale of money, which constitutes unjust transfers of wealth that only serve to concentrate wealth away from the average person and into the coffers of rich monopolists.
The Starting Point for Economic Thought
If our human arrangements, our economic systems, our laws, our tax policies, obscure that God-given harmony between work and workers, we ought to change these human constructs so that they reflect better and more closely the order that God clearly intended.
Co-Creational Curriculum
It’s not enough to simply re-configure what the Church has said in words and phrases more commonly palatable. It’s not enough to develop a set of lessons that parishioners can go to school on to become better informed. We need a Co-Creational Curriculum.
The Austrian Version of the English Enclosures
Why are the past fifty years of scholarship on the enclosures more reliable than the past two centuries of scholarship? We are talking about the dispossession of non-owners from the commons by both large and small “owners,” whose purported titles ultimately derived from the massive Henrican theft of Church lands that paved the way for English capitalism.
Labor Rights Reality
It is ironic that those who propose to remove government intervention in the economy are amongst the biggest proponents of using government to tear down unions that “get in the way” of the market. What these folks fail or refuse to recognize is that unions have as much of a right to be market participants as corporations.
Distributismul şi economia politică
Ceea ce a fost trecut cu vederea este faptul că economia nu este o ştiinţă fizică, ci o ştiinţă umană. Și, asemeni tuturor ştiinţelor umane, se referă la o anumită categorie de relaţii interumane, respectiv cele necesare pentru asigurarea resurselor materiale ale societăţii.
America Foreclosed
Not only are the majority defaulting on their home loans, their equity lines of credit, and their double-digit interest credit cards. They are also increasingly receiving a smaller and smaller percentage of the nation’s wealth.