David W. Cooney 9/17/12 David W. Cooney 9/17/12

House of Cards

What we really need is a solution that focuses on the common citizen and one that helps families become financially independent.

Dr. Ovidiu Hurduzeu 9/1/12 Dr. Ovidiu Hurduzeu 9/1/12

Can Distributism Fix a Ravaged Country?

Today’s Romania is a ravaged country with a wrecked economy, a banking system in foreign hands, and its natural resources and fertile land up for grabs.

David W. Cooney 8/18/12 David W. Cooney 8/18/12

What is the Global Economy?

The global economy is really nothing more than the dispensation of national loyalty.

Andrew McInnes 8/15/12 Andrew McInnes 8/15/12

Distributism and Taxation

Through taxation policy, Distributism stands alone as offering the best solution to the ills of the modern settlement.

Hilaire Belloc 8/6/12 Hilaire Belloc 8/6/12

Nationalization

A society in which the mass of men have no experience of ownership is a society which sees in Socialism the short-cut to its ideals.

Angus Sibley 7/9/12 Angus Sibley 7/9/12

Errors of Libertarian Economics

The doctrine that any person has an inalienable right to enter into any willingly agreed contract forms the bedrock of libertarian economics.

Marcus Grodi 7/8/12 Marcus Grodi 7/8/12

Economics, Distributism, and Limits Theory

Are we pulled closer to God and independence, or enticed to sell our souls along the accelerating path of economic progress and wealth?

Thomas Storck 6/12/12 Thomas Storck 6/12/12

Too Few Capitalists or Too Much Capitalism?

There is a saying of Chesterton's about economics that one finds frequently quoted with little attempt to understand what Chesterton meant or might have meant.

Tom Tousignant 5/28/12 Tom Tousignant 5/28/12

The Most Honest Commencement Address You'll Never Hear

According to conservative estimates, over half of those between the ages of 20-25 are jobless. But you'll never hear that from any commencement address.

Richard Aleman 5/13/12 Richard Aleman 5/13/12

Understanding the Economic Justice of Marriage

The civil institution of marriage serves the well-being of children and affirms the optimal setting for their development.

Thomas Storck 4/1/12 Thomas Storck 4/1/12

The Chief Question in Economics

The most fundamental question in economics, whether we are speaking of economic policy or of the subject called economics, is this.

David W. Cooney 2/24/12 David W. Cooney 2/24/12

The Home Mortgage

The home mortgage is the largest expense for the average family.

Yves Pernet 2/18/12 Yves Pernet 2/18/12

State Capitalism

The irony is that under the pretext of carrying out Hayek's ideas we have boarded the plane to State Capitalism.

Thomas Storck 2/18/12 Thomas Storck 2/18/12

Distributism and the Labor Market Divide

Under Capitalism some provide the capital and others the labor.

David W. Cooney 1/8/12 David W. Cooney 1/8/12

Is Distributism a Form of Capitalism?

That private ownership of productive capital is essential to Distributism does not make it a form of Capitalism.

Richard Aleman 1/8/12 Richard Aleman 1/8/12

A Message for the Home

Our debt isn’t really a problem. Our inability to pay it is the problem.

John C. Médaille 1/3/12 John C. Médaille 1/3/12

Friends and Strangers: A Meditation on Money

Money is not so much a medium of exchange as a record of the obligations we have to each other.

Thomas Storck 12/19/11 Thomas Storck 12/19/11

Economics and the Real World

Thomas Storck examines some statements that seem to put the lie to the claim that mainstream neoclassical economics is actually engaged with the real world.

Dr. Ovidiu Hurduzeu 12/5/11 Dr. Ovidiu Hurduzeu 12/5/11

Distributism in Eastern Europe

After the World War, Eastern European countries adopted democratic institutions and enfranchised the peasant both politically and economically.

John M. DeJak 11/26/11 John M. DeJak 11/26/11

Seeking the Common Good

Hippler makes very clear the definition of the common good is “a good that can be shared in by all and does not diminish when it is divided.”