Classic Reading List

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G.K. Chesterton
What’s Wrong with the World †
The Outline of Sanity
Utopia of Usurers †
Eugenics and Other Evils †

Hilaire Belloc
The Servile State †
An Essay on the Restoration of Property
The Way Out

Fr. Vincent McNabb
The Church and the Land
Nazareth or Social Chaos
Old Principles and the New Order
The Catholic Land Movement †

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Early Distributists

Hilary Pepler (or St. Dominic’s Press)
Justice and the Child †
The Devil’s Devices †

G.C. Heseltine
Town to Country
The Change

Flee to the Fields by The Catholic Land Movement
The Fairy Ring of Commerce by Cmdr. Herbert Shove
The Sun of Justice by Harold Robbins

Arthur J. Penty
Guilds, Trade, and Agriculture
The Restoration of the Gild System
A Guildsman’s Interpretation of History
Guilds and the Social Crisis
Old Worlds for New
Post-Industrialism
Protection and Free Trade

Neo-Distributism

E.F. Schumacher
Good Work
A Guide for the Perplexed
Small is Beautiful

Mondragón Cooperative and Fr. José María Arizmendiarrieta

El otro Don José María †
El hombre cooperativo: Pensamiento de Arizmendiarrieta †

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Rebuilding Russia
Letter to Soviet Leaders
From Under the Rubble
Warning to the West
Solzhenitsyn’s 1978 Harvard Address †

Solidarity

Fr. Heinrich Pesch, S.J.
Ethics and the National Economy
Lehrbuch Der Nationalokonomie

Dr. Rupert Ederer
Heinrich Pesch on Solidarist Economics
Economics As if God Mattered

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Catholic Social Teaching

Fr. Joseph Husslein, S.J.
Democratic Industry †
The Church and Social Problems †
The Catholic’s Work in the World †
The World Problem: Capital, Labor, and the Church †
Work, Wealth, Wages, and the Church †

Msgr. John A. Ryan
Distributive Justice †
The Living Wage †
The State and the Church†

Fr. John F. Cronin, S.J.
Communism: Threat to Freedom †
The Church and the Working Man

Msgr. Luigi Civardi
How Christ Changed the World †
A Concise Manual of Catholic Action
Christianity and Social Justice

Msgr. Luigi Ligutti
Rural Roads to Security†

Amintore Fanfani
Catholicism, Protestantism, and Capitalism