The Science of Economics
Just how accurate are the claims about the science of economics used to rebut the proponents of Distributism?
The Economics of Abundance
Out of a natural abundance, we create an artificial scarcity. But modern economics preaches that to make a thing scarce is to make it valuable.
College Football
College football carries with it much of what some think of as good and endurable about our modern circumstances.
Do You Know Where Your Money is and What it is Doing?
We don’t know who is being hired and who is being fired with our money. And we have no control over the most obscene things we finance.
Distributism: Economics as if People Mattered
"The Servile State" is the one of classical antiquity, in which vast masses of the people work as slaves for the small class of owners.
Will the Real Capitalism Please Stand Up?
Capitalists wonder why distributists oppose capitalism. It would be easy to answer this if there were a true, consistently held definition of capitalism.
The Neoconservative Response Part II
Novak himself states that “neoliberal” would be a better epithet than “neoconservative,” as Liberalism describes the movement more accurately.
Economic Law and Catholic Social Doctrine Part II
The creation of an economics must be consistent with observed human behavior and with the Church's social doctrine.
Economic Law and Catholic Social Doctrine
Catholic Social Teaching, began in an authoritative way with Leo XIII's 1891 encyclical Rerum Novarum.
The Neoconservative Response
The neoconservatives have tapped a strain in Catholicism that has been present in one form or another since the Enlightenment.
What is Socialism?
Socialism was never defined as government intervention into economic life or the running of businesses.
Buy Junk or Starve!
One need simply wander through a shopping mall to conclude that many of the products of human industry are really just junk.
The Coming American Default
The Bretton-Woods Agreement of 1944, which established the U.S. dollar as the world’s reserve currency is coming to an end.
The Outline of Sanity
Chesterton's "string of essays," which were published as The Outline of Sanity in 1926 serve as what might rightly be called a manual of Distributism.
A Parallel Economy
Our "parallel economy" is an economy that provides for the same needs as the capitalist economy, but provides for them in a different manner.
Is Economics a Science?
Do we not have warrant for suspecting that economics is not a complete science and is unable to give us real information about the economy?
Building the Ownership Society
Building an ownership society involves the principles of subsidiarity and solidarity, and the principle that justice is intrinsic to economic order.
Plutonomics, Citibank, and the Doom Cycle
Citibank uses a term to describe our economy which has never occurred to me, “plutonomy,” an economy run for the benefit of the rich.
A Distributist Looks at Capitalism and Socialism
Distributism offers another way, an economic system which will place fewer obstacles for fallen humanity to put first things first.
Justice, Fairness and Taxation Part II
Distributism refers to the idea of distributive justice, which is accomplished through the widely distributed ownership of productive capital.