Archive for Category: "Books"
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.
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.
Seeking the Common Good
Citizens is an excellent primer in the Church’s social doctrine. Handy study questions that follow each chapter make it perfect for classroom use as well as for independent study with friends or within the parish.
Jobs of Our Own, vu de France
L’un des grands mérites de ce livre consiste à ne pas offrir une vision irénique de l’histoire du distributisme, mais à tenter d’en cerner les éléments essentiels, les réussites et les failles, afin d’évaluer une possible mise à jour face aux questions du temps présent.
A Review of Economics for Helen
Hilaire Belloc, in 1923, was emphasizing something that many others at the time, such as the Solidarist Heinrich Pesch, were also emphasizing. Economics is a human science about the very basic functioning of human society.
Little Dorrit and the Debt Crisis
“Little Dorrit” is set in the 1820s, a period which saw debtors prisons and financial ruin of smaller men by the wealthy elite, incompetent bureaucracies, and the Circumlocution office. Although one of Dickens’ lesser known books, “Little Dorrit” is copied from Dickens’ real life experiences.
Christians and the Economy
How many of us benefit from usury, a thing condemned by both the Law of Moses and the Catholic Church from the beginning–not to mention by Natural Law itself?
Utopia of Usurers
Most of us have seen Chesterton the novelist, Chesterton the wit, Chesterton the poet, and Chesterton the historian. In Utopia of Usurers, we find Chesterton’s blood boiling.
Who Owns Our Jobs?
Jobs are not a gift from on high, from the great bureaucracies of corporations and governments. Between the two principles, subsidiarity and solidarity, Mondragón takes the principles of Catholic social doctrine and turns them into a living reality. And a successful one at that.