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Low Wages and Easy Speeches
Economics, Thomas Storck Thomas Storck 12/18/18 Economics, Thomas Storck Thomas Storck 12/18/18

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.

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Blasphemy and the Baby
Vintage Distributism, G.K. Chesterton G.K. Chesterton 1/25/18 Vintage Distributism, G.K. Chesterton G.K. Chesterton 1/25/18

Blasphemy and the Baby

When Catholics talk about the natural law, they mean the law of man’s moral status, as it can be perceived by man’s natural reason.

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The Catholic Church After Obergefell
Culture, Thomas Storck Thomas Storck 12/26/17 Culture, Thomas Storck Thomas Storck 12/26/17

The Catholic Church After Obergefell

Let us use the occasion of the Supreme Court's Obergefell decision not to engage in railing and political strategizing, but to take stock of our spiritual and intellectual health.

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Collusion of Big Business and Big Government
Phillip Campbell, Politics Phillip Campbell 12/5/17 Phillip Campbell, Politics Phillip Campbell 12/5/17

Collusion of Big Business and Big Government

A standard critique of capitalism, going back to Chesterton and Belloc, is that it creates a collusion between Big Government and Big Business.

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What Is Capitalism and Where Did It Start?
Economics, Joseph Pearce Joseph Pearce 11/28/17 Economics, Joseph Pearce Joseph Pearce 11/28/17

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.

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A new book from … Fulton Sheen!
Books, Dale Ahlquist Dale Ahlquist 11/26/17 Books, Dale Ahlquist Dale Ahlquist 11/26/17

A new book from … Fulton Sheen!

Sheen always had the gift for being able to connect with his audience, and here is no exception, even with a topic as dry as economics.

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The Market As the Capitalist Demiurge
Economics, Thomas Storck Thomas Storck 2/27/17 Economics, Thomas Storck Thomas Storck 2/27/17

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.

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How Not to Do It
Vintage Distributism, G.K. Chesterton G.K. Chesterton 11/20/16 Vintage Distributism, G.K. Chesterton G.K. Chesterton 11/20/16

How Not to Do It

There are two recognised ways of arguing with a Communist; and they are both wrong.

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Some Wage Sanity
Economics, Jack Quirk Jack Quirk 11/13/16 Economics, Jack Quirk Jack Quirk 11/13/16

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.

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In Solitude
Vintage Distributism, G.K. Chesterton G.K. Chesterton 7/29/16 Vintage Distributism, G.K. Chesterton G.K. Chesterton 7/29/16

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.

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La poesia dei limiti
Dale Ahlquist, Italian Dale Ahlquist 6/8/16 Dale Ahlquist, Italian Dale Ahlquist 6/8/16

La poesia dei limiti

Limiti sono regole. Il paradosso è che la libertà esiste solo all’interno delle regole. Se infrangiamo le regole, non otteniamo la libertà.

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The Psychology of Distributism
Karl Schmude, Politics Karl Schmude 6/6/16 Karl Schmude, Politics Karl Schmude 6/6/16

The Psychology of Distributism

Chesterton and Belloc nursed the fear that the psychology of a society conditioned by capitalism and socialism might induce people to yield on liberty.

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Fun in the Field
Vintage Distributism, G.K. Chesterton G.K. Chesterton 6/3/16 Vintage Distributism, G.K. Chesterton G.K. Chesterton 6/3/16

Fun in the Field

Where did the fun begin? It began on the farm. It began with the sort of tools, tricks and hiding-places that can most easily be found on the farm.

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Distributism, Now?
Economics, Karl Schmude Karl Schmude 5/30/16 Economics, Karl Schmude Karl Schmude 5/30/16

Distributism, Now?

Having explored the intellectual and psychological roots of the origins of Distributism, Karl Schmude looks at how applicable Distributism is in our time.

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Alternatives to the Jungle
Angus Sibley, Economics Angus Sibley 5/23/16 Angus Sibley, Economics Angus Sibley 5/23/16

Alternatives to the Jungle

We have gone a fair way backwards since the last century, when governments pursued strategies that owed much to Catholic economic teachings.

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The Mind in Chains
Vintage Distributism, G.K. Chesterton G.K. Chesterton 5/19/16 Vintage Distributism, G.K. Chesterton G.K. Chesterton 5/19/16

The Mind in Chains

What Communists do not seem to understand, is that the mind is always diverted; if it is a free mind; that is, if it is a mind at all.

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I nuovi secoli bui
Italian, G.K. Chesterton G.K. Chesterton 5/19/16 Italian, G.K. Chesterton G.K. Chesterton 5/19/16

I nuovi secoli bui

Certi critici ci dicono che desideriamo ritornare ai secoli bui, a proposito dei quali loro per primi sono completamente al buio.

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Chesterton and the Pickpocket
Karl Schmude, Philosophy Karl Schmude 5/17/16 Karl Schmude, Philosophy Karl Schmude 5/17/16

Chesterton and the Pickpocket

Chesterton invoked the image of the pickpocket as a way of capturing the truth about present-day economic philosophies and practices.

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History Is Humanity
Vintage Distributism, G.K. Chesterton G.K. Chesterton 4/29/16 Vintage Distributism, G.K. Chesterton G.K. Chesterton 4/29/16

History Is Humanity

The mere economic motive would never have produced anything like what we call the history of men; even if it produced something like the history of mice.

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Lo stato infallibile
Italian, G.K. Chesterton G.K. Chesterton 4/27/16 Italian, G.K. Chesterton G.K. Chesterton 4/27/16

Lo stato infallibile

Il moderno attacco al capitalismo è venuto in pratica a significare questo: che lo Stato diventerà il capitalista.

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