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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.
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.
The FALL of Phantom Assets
It was in Ayn Rand’s New York intimate circle that Greenspan found the ideological laissez-faire Capitalism that would be to him more than just an economic system, but rather, an entire new understanding of man. Greenspan then transformed a stock market bubble into a housing and consumer spending bubble of historic and unprecedented proportions.
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.
A Review of Ethics and the National Economy
Forget Milton Friedman and supply-side economics. Shelve your ECO I textbook and leave the road to serfdom. Now is the time to put Fr. Pesch in the place of Ludwig von Mises. As you always suspected, morality really must govern economic life and Fr. Pesch’s Ethics and the National Economy will tell you why.
Corporation Christendom: The True School of Salamanca
If Aquinas was a capitalistic Pre-Liberal, von Mises certainly did not see it; in fact, he uses St. Thomas’s teachings as the embodiment of the very mentality and outlook, which he is rejecting.
Distributism: Economics as if People Mattered
According to Belloc, it was King Henry’s confiscation of the monastery lands in England, and his action of parceling them out among his wealthy supporters, which marked the beginning of the transformation of England from a nation in which property, the land, and the means of production were widely distributed, to one in which a small number of families control increasingly greater shares of the land.
The Coming American Default
If Secretary Geithner is “open” to the idea of the end of the United States’ domination of the economic and political processes of the world, which would result from the toppling of the dollar as the world’s reserve currency, Barack Obama seems to be acting as if that “toppling” has already taken place.
The Outline of Sanity
The economic meltdowns of the last few years have indicated the fallacy that underlies the very system itself. This fallacy is that if you have a system in which all men seek, and are even encouraged to seek, after their own private economic well being, the community and nation as a whole will be the beneficiary of that economic self-seeking.