Some Wage Sanity
The establishment of a national wage ratio may well be the simplest and most workable of the solutions available for reducing the income gap.
Catholics and Libertarian Economics: A Reply to Samuel Gregg
Gregg frames the conflict between Pope Francis and libertarian thought, whereas it is really a conflict between Catholic teaching and libertarian thought.
Social Credit Prognostications
Social Credit theory offers a cogent set of explanations for both the whys and the hows of our financial and social discontents.
Localism, Tribalism, and Personalism
In the words of Personalism, a person’s truest nature consists in “decentralizing itself in order to become available for others”.
Capitalism and Economism
The truth of what John Paul wrote about economism hardly allows us to defend a system that fosters the desire for material goods as an end in itself.
Life From Our Land
Maybe it is here that my experience of trying to be a farmer and living “on the land” taught me the most about what salvation and living the Gospel truly means.
New Names For Old Things
It is much harder to make distinctions between beneficial and harmful innovations, and even more so between new things and new names for old things.
Downtimes and Distributism
What should firms do when faced with a choice between the reduction of employee compensation and a reduction in the number of employees?
The Social Credit Analysis of Cost
Dr. Oliver Heydorn examines cost from a Social Credit perspective.
The Slavophils
Slavophils generally represented the ‘small’ landowner class, standing between a French- and German-speaking, Westernised, absentee-landlord ‘high society’ on the one hand, and a vast, devotedly-Orthodox, Russian-speaking class of unfree or semi-free serfs and peasants on the other.
Internet Businesses: Solution or Stopgap?
Internet commerce means we will buy almost nothing from local stores and instead sit at our computers, ordering from online venders often located far away.
Beyond Americanism and Constitutionalism
Based on Catholic social principles, “Americanism” as well as the belief in “Strict-Constitutionalism” has and will continue to do more harm than good.
Productivity
What happens when the introduction of new technology reduces time and increases productivity?
Homage to Christ the King
Economic activity is part of that hierarchy of means and ends leading up to God, part of the homage to Christ the King which mankind is bound to offer.
In Solitude
One side promises nothing and we have no notion what it will do. The other side promises everything and we have no notion how it will do it.
Politics and Mysticism, and Mysticism Is Better
Dorothy and Peter did not put their best hopes in partisan politics. Peter Maurin quoted Péguy: “There is politics and mysticism, and mysticism is better.”
Social Justice According to Pius XI
The term “social justice” is little understood by most of those who use it—but the term does have a precise meaning as carefully explained by Pius XI.
The Catholic Solution to a Social and Political Problem
Catholic Action is the apolitical solution to a political problem. It is the Catholic faith put into social practice.
Socialism, Capitalism, and Materialism
Catholics assume that the reason for Pius' declaration against socialism was the economic or perhaps the political practices of socialists.
Il perché del profitto
Il profitto deriva da un lato, il lavoro di organizzazione e direzione del titolare di un’impresa, dall’altro il rischio a cui si sottopone.