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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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Anti-Union Hypocrisy and the Janus Case
Economics, Guilds, Thomas Storck Thomas Storck 4/16/18 Economics, Guilds, Thomas Storck Thomas Storck 4/16/18

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.

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The High Costs of Low Prices
Angus Sibley, Economics Angus Sibley 12/10/17 Angus Sibley, Economics Angus Sibley 12/10/17

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.

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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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New Names For Old Things
Catholic Social Teaching, Thomas Storck Thomas Storck 10/5/16 Catholic Social Teaching, Thomas Storck Thomas Storck 10/5/16

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.

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Downtimes and Distributism
Economics, Jack Quirk Jack Quirk 10/3/16 Economics, Jack Quirk Jack Quirk 10/3/16

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?

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Cooperative Education
Education, Jack Quirk Jack Quirk 6/19/16 Education, Jack Quirk Jack Quirk 6/19/16

Cooperative Education

Cooperative education is a concept that involves alternating periods of academic study with periods of work experience in appropriate fields.

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The Forgotten Agrarian
Agrarianism, History, John Médaille John C. Médaille 4/18/16 Agrarianism, History, John Médaille John C. Médaille 4/18/16

The Forgotten Agrarian

It is not so much a matter of Adam Smith “defending” capitalism as it is of capitalists appropriating Smith, and often against his expressed wishes.

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Social Credit: An Introduction for Distributists
Economics, Oliver Heydorn Dr. Oliver Heydorn 4/11/16 Economics, Oliver Heydorn Dr. Oliver Heydorn 4/11/16

Social Credit: An Introduction for Distributists

The Social Credit movement sought to bring the institutions that regulate social life into alignment with the natural laws that govern reality.

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Property as Key to Social Justice
Hilaire Belloc, Vintage Distributism Hilaire Belloc 3/10/16 Hilaire Belloc, Vintage Distributism Hilaire Belloc 3/10/16

Property as Key to Social Justice

It is not true that capitalism arose inevitably from the necessary development of economic institutions under the doctrine of private property.

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Insufficiency and Insecurity
Hilaire Belloc, Vintage Distributism Hilaire Belloc 1/23/16 Hilaire Belloc, Vintage Distributism Hilaire Belloc 1/23/16

Insufficiency and Insecurity

Wherever industrial Capitalism arose the same conditions of insufficiency followed it.

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Are They Pro-Life?
Arturo Ortiz, Politics Arturo Ortiz 12/16/15 Arturo Ortiz, Politics Arturo Ortiz 12/16/15

Are They Pro-Life?

There may be attractive reasons for voting Sanders or Paul, but both fall short of advancing a pro-life culture and pro-family economy.

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A Message for the Home
Economics, Richard Aleman Richard Aleman 1/8/12 Economics, Richard Aleman Richard Aleman 1/8/12

A Message for the Home

Our debt isn’t really a problem. Our inability to pay it is the problem.

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Is Economics a Science?
Economics, John Médaille John C. Médaille 11/14/10 Economics, John Médaille John C. Médaille 11/14/10

Is Economics a Science?

Do we not have warrant for suspecting that economics is not a complete science and is unable to give us real information about the economy?

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John Paul II, Laborem Exercens
Catholic Social Teaching, Thomas Storck Thomas Storck 9/8/10 Catholic Social Teaching, Thomas Storck Thomas Storck 9/8/10

John Paul II, Laborem Exercens

Pope John Paul intended to issue Laborem Exercens on May 15, 1981, the ninetieth anniversary of Rerum Novarum.

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