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.
The Trouble with Catholic Social Teaching
The term Catholic Social Teaching produces two opposite and unpleasant effects. It makes some people bare their teeth and others run and hide.
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.
Capitalist Monopolies vs Distributist Guilds
Under our existing capitalist monopolies, huge businesses buy out or undersell the local competition.
The Wage Worker
The wage worker is one who works not for himself but for another at wage paid him by that other.
Is A Free Market A Good Thing?
Free markets will not automatically produce justice; neither will they even necessarily produce economic prosperity.
Le distributisme dans Gilbert Magazine
L’american Chesterton Society vient de publier un numéro important de sa publication, le Gilbert Magazine, lequel est entièrement consacré au distributisme.
El Distributismo en la Comarca
El distributismo es el sistema económico y filosófico derivado de las encíclicas papales y desarrollado por G.K. Chesterton e Hilaire Belloc.
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 Church and the Libertarian: A Review
The Church and the Libertarian is an exhaustive and polemical work, refuting Austro-Libertarianism and defending the Catholic Church's social teaching.
Unto Christ
We are all called to exercise Christian charity by giving a handout on a street corner, a donation to a shelter, or a 'God bless you' to a stranger.
The Growth and Decline of the Roman Economy
The importance of agriculture to the foundation of the Roman state is seen also in their mythology and calendar.
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.
The Basis of Civilization
Chesterton says that every high civilization decays by forgetting obvious things. The obvious things are the ordinary things, and we have forgotten them.
Toward a Truly Free Market: A Review
Indeed, the “free” market called capitalism is a system of privatized profits and socialized losses.
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.
Food and Fellowship
Eating becomes a moral act when we make choices about how we produce, sell, and buy our food, taking into account how others are affected by our decisions.