Post Tagged with: "Donald Goodman"
Distributism and the Modern Economy Part Two
If the average citizen is the owner of some means of production—whether that be land, tools of a trade, or some other productive property—the problems of our current system… will be greatly mitigated. We will again be faithful to our God-given task of stewarding the earth which He gave us.
Distributism and the Modern Economy
Man uses the resources God gave him to produce the wealth that he requires for his flourishing. It does not, however, take an astute reader to notice that our current system seems quite far removed from this description.
Economic Autarchy and Buying American
Is it more moral to prefer more locally-made goods to more remotely-made ones? I think that the great Catholic tradition of economic autarchy reveals an answer of “Unequivocally, yes.”
Locke and InsideCatholic
For Leo, men don’t form the state because they want to protect their property; they form the state because his “natural instinct moves him to live in civil society, for he cannot, if dwelling apart, provide himself with the necessary requirements of life, nor procure the means of developing his mental and moral faculties.”
Subsidiarity: Judging the Appropriate Level
Subsidiarity should be understood as saying not that the lowest possible level should be doing things, but that the right level should be doing them.
Protecting the Plutocracy: Intellectual Property
Ostensibly designed to protect intellectual property, the DMCA provides for civil and criminal penalties for the violation of the intellectual property rights of others.
Plutocracy Hypocrisy
Intellectual property laws prevent things from falling into the public domain; that is, they offer private ownership of what would otherwise be a public good.
The True Sources of Wealth
What property is productive? There are almost limitless correct answers to that question, but fundamentally wealth is produced from four forms of such property: the fields, the forests, the factories, and the mines.
Free Cars for the Poor?
The poor need to get jobs in order to improve themselves. But before they can get a job, they need to have a car; but before they can get a car, they need to have a job to pay for that car.