Tilling Fertile Soil
We realize that the fertile soil that we have been tilling is our intellect and will to the good of our country and to the glory of God.
Capital Kills Its Own Market
Suppose one man in a community of 1,000,000 men controlled all the land and all the capital.
The Seriousness of Salad
That salad is the symbol of Distributism will instantly leap to every well-regulated mind; as it has only just leapt to mine.
Utopia of Usurers
In Utopia of Usurers Chesterton predicts that the only institution of his time that will have a future will be the institution of the prison.
Some Odds and Loose Ends
A perfectly free market has never existed and our present economy is not a free market, but such a state of affairs have not produced real prosperity.
The Proletarian Mind
The proletarian mind inherits nothing and has no hope of handing on anything to posterity.
Can Mises Be Baptized?
Money flows like water for these people, usually corporate money, water largely used in an attempt to baptize Mises.
The Monster
We have created a monster. We have fed the monster. And now the monster is eating our villages.
Wanted, An Unpractical Man
It is far truer to say that when things go very wrong we need an unpractical man.
A Review of Ethics and the National Economy
In contrast to Mises's dismissal of a socially binding "ethics" and "national economy," we find a priest asserting the real existence of both.
Justice, Fairness and Taxation Part Four
Hilaire Belloc insisted that progressive taxation could be used to achieve wider distribution of land ownership and to prevent monopolies.
Capitalism As An Unnatural System
For Aristotle, natural exchange was that necessary to provision the household, while unnatural exchange had money alone for its object.
Is A Free Market A Good Thing?
Free markets will not automatically produce justice; neither will they even necessarily produce economic prosperity.
Corporation Christendom: The True School of Salamanca
Christendom, unlike “market forces,” presupposes real freedom; if man was not free and meant to be fulfilled in his freedom, Christendom would not be needed.
The Social Kingship of Christ
The Church teaches as the viceroy of Christ the King what moral principles need to form economic laws and transactions.
What is Money?
The desire for commodity money often represents a confusion about the nature of money, as if money itself were to have value.
Roadside GMO Corn
Defenders of GMO get all excited that with GMOs, farmers don't have to use pesticides that people like them were so excited about fifty years ago.
Exposing the Dangerous Premises of Economic Liberals
Liberal Economic Philosophy says any choice which increases net wealth is a good choice; the principle acknowledges no limit.
The Uselessness of Utility
In abandoning the “ought” in the name of science, economists abandoned the one principle that could make the discipline scientific.
Let's Print Our Own Money
When people consider alternatives to money, their minds seem to run to gold and real estate.