Credit for the Rest of Us?
The problems with fractional reserve banking and the creation of checkbook-credit allows banks to rig the system of credit like an elaborate casino.
The Myth of Ownership
Not only do the laws of capitalism facilitate the separation of ownership from work, they also seem to separate ownership from the rights of ownership.
An Incarnate Economy
In consumer capitalism, profit maximisation only works if desire is kept alive, and not stopped short when that desire is completed.
The Closing of the Commercial Commons
The commons has disappeared into the corporate collective, a collective as brutal and as unfree as anything ever imagined by Josef Stalin.
Scaling Business
The pervasive fear of any state influence on the size of a business is based on the philosophical error that man's natural state is apolitical and asocial.
The African Who Brought Chesterton to Sierra Leone
“I had discovered Gilbert Keith Chesterton,” says Kanu, “and I wanted to apply his ideas about man and economics to my country."
Economic Participation
More ownership is rarely explored today because we have accepted the separation of ownership and work as the gold standard of economic progress.
Share and Share Alike
When ownership shares are awarded only to the money investors in capital, the employees who do the work have the value of their labor expropriated from them.
While We Were Out
Daniel Schwindt reminds us why recent developments shaping the world make today an exciting time to engage in conversations about Distributism.
The Profit Motive
That seeking and gaining of immense wealth is a socially acceptable pursuit points to the fact that the morals of our society are not based on those of Jesus Christ.
What's Wrong with Distributism
Thomas Storck responds to Dr. David Deavel in his latest article "What's Wrong with Distributism."
The Spirit of Capitalism
Capitalism is something that is frequently defined differently by different people. In this article, Thomas Storck explores the spirit of capitalism.
G.K. Chesterton and the Challenge of Poland
Chesterton had spontaneously praised Poland, pointing to the deep love of personal freedom—the freedom that once existed in England.
Economic Efficiency & Human Good
Almost the entire field of economics is dominated by the idea of scarcity and the resulting mandate for economic efficiency.
Distributism and Perfect Competition
The fewer firms there are and the bigger the firms get, the more power each individual firm has.
What Next to Save the Economy?
Despite the assurances of government leaders around the world that everything is getting better, signs show otherwise.
Insights Into a Distributist Trinitarian Worldview
Distributists ought to leave their comfort zone and go much further than establishing the guidelines for a local “front porch life style”.
Plutonomy
The impact of for-profit control over our society has reenergized what some astute observers call plutonomy, which is what we are living under today.
The Butcher, the Baker, the Candlestick Maker
Christian defenders of self-interest are quite comfortable with accepting behavior they would denounce in any other area of social life.
The Just Wage
Distributists recognize this natural relation between a man's labor and his ability to provide for his family, a relationship which is exhibited most clearly in an economy consisting of owner-workers.