Distributism and the Labor Market Divide
Distributism would promote the idea that everyone willing to work is entitled to a living for himself and his family, but that to seek to increase one's income without measure is to follow the maxims...
View ArticleThe Chief Question in Economics
Distributists do indeed desire a revolution, but a revolution in men's minds, in our way of thinking, so that eventually our way of acting and conducting our economic affairs can be changed.
View ArticleThe Contradictions of Liberals and Conservatives
Most Americans who are in the slightest degree politically active or interested incline to one of the two chief political positions common in this country, what we call conservatism or liberalism.
View ArticleToo Few Capitalists or Too Much Capitalism?
There is a saying of G.K. Chesterton's about economics that one finds frequently quoted, but often it seems with little attempt to understand what Chesterton meant or might have meant, especially in...
View ArticleLiberalism and the Absence of Purpose
Is government merely a necessary administrative function whose purposes derive from the individual desires of the people, or is it a divinely appointed authority?
View ArticleThe Just Wage
Distributists recognize this natural relation between a man's labor and his ability to provide for his family, a relationship which is exhibited most clearly in an economy consisting of owner-workers.
View ArticleThe Butcher, the Baker, the Candlestick Maker
It is certainly odd that Christian defenders of self-interest are quite comfortable with accepting behavior based on man's sinful tendencies as the foundation for the economy, something they would...
View ArticleCatholics and the Bourgeois Mind
We must begin both to evangelize the counterculture and enlighten our fellow Catholics. As the second begins to succeed, the first will be done more easily.
View ArticleAquinas on Buying and Selling
Those who desire to be rich fall in temptation, into a snare, into many senseless and hurtful desires that plunge men into ruin and destruction. For the love of money is the root of all evils.
View ArticleEconomic Efficiency and Human Good
Almost the entire field of economics is dominated by the idea of scarcity and the resulting mandate for economic efficiency. But what if these foundational principles of economics are in fact incorrect?
View ArticleThe Spirit of Capitalism
If we are interested not in "the superiority of the things produced" but only or chiefly in "the amount of wealth accumulated," then we will naturally not focus overmuch on the quality of the goods we...
View ArticleWhat’s Wrong with Distributism: A Response
The glaring fact is that the free-market capitalist economy, as a real historical thing existing in the world, has been the engine of a society whose ideals are at odds with those of Christian society.
View ArticleThe Profit Motive
The fact that the seeking and gaining of immense wealth is a socially acceptable pursuit, points to the fact that the moral standards of our society are not based on those of Jesus Christ.
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