An Example
Citizens who have been long deprived of their property and who have ceased to feel the instinct for it, tend to lose their citizenship.
Low Wages and Easy Speeches
Wages don't matter - unless you happen to be a low-wage worker who also needs to live and perhaps wants to live right now.
Anti-Union Hypocrisy and the Janus Case
The same radical individualism that wants unions to be nothing but ineffectual voluntary organizations likewise sees marriage and the family as mere voluntary associations.
The Economic Crisis of 2008-2009
There is a disconnect for Catholics between the Word of the Gospel and the economic culture, which countenances every form of self-indulgence.
Maximum or adequate profits?
What are the pernicious consequences of the pursuit of maximum profits? The best solution would be a radical change in prevailing attitudes.
Catholicism and Economics
Only when the present economic question is settled, will the real opportunity of Catholicism come; for the conversion of our civilisation.
The Crime of the Communist
The Communist does not justify Communism so that it may be established; he would rather establish it so that it may be justified.
The High Costs of Low Prices
Today we are obsessed by the desire to keep prices down. Nevertheless, the cult of minimum prices can have some nasty consequences.
What Is Capitalism and Where Did It Start?
If capitalism is merely the use of capital, the first capitalist was the first of our ancestors to pick up a stick and use it.
Two Biblical Passages On Economic Life
There are two passages from Sacred Scripture which, taken together, illustrate well the place which economic activity should occupy in human life.
The Market As the Capitalist Demiurge
The beneficial efficiency that market competition can sometimes produce is in no way a substitute for intelligent concern for the common good.
Some Christmas Thoughts On Ebenezer Scrooge
So much has the mentality we see in Scrooge triumphed in the modern world that responsible adults have celebrated him as an honorable and worthy citizen.
Social Credit Solutions
The rate at which costs and prices are built up in the course of production exceed the rate at which consumer purchasing power is distributed to consumers.
Distributismo Dall'Est
Il distributismo basa il suo principio economico della sussidiarietà sul principio etico della solidarietà.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Productivity
What happens when the introduction of new technology reduces time and increases productivity?