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.
Industry: A Distributist Solution Part II
Cooperatives are a Distributist answer for the increase of widespread ownership of the means of production.
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.
Industry: The Distributist Solution
From chewing gum to automobiles, chairs to food stuffs, we live in a world consumed by and dependent on mass-produced goods and large-scale industry.
The League of Fried Eggs and Bacon
Who was the first person to put bacon, eggs and toast together on a plate? He is far more brilliant than any president, pope or philosopher!
Despre distributism, socialismul marxist și capitalism
Chesterton a spus că lucrul cel mai grav în cazul capitalismului este că a realizat tot ceea ce socialismul şi-a propus să înfăptuiască.
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.
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
How big a town or city would we need for a guild to develop to meet the need for regulation?
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.
Justice, Fairness and Taxation Part Three
David Cooney discusses the different schools of Capitalist thought and how Distributism differs from them in regard to stabilizing the economy and taxation.
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.