© Despair.com – Used with permission Some images from Despair.com are © Getty Images Even the experts seem confused. It is not unusual for critics of distributism to claim that we “just don’t understand economics.” Do the so-called experts really understand it? Look through the following headlines covering about one month of “expert” reporting on … More Trying to Understand Economics?
A response to Peter Blair’s article in First Things. I think that Peter Blair’s article, Distributism is not Agrarianism, is a very important article for continuing the discussion on how to resolve our economic problems. Please read it. Please share it. If necessary, please learn from it. If I may offer one criticism, it would … More Is Distributism Agrarianism?
Catholicism and Wealth Redistribution by Brian McCall, J.D. Catholic Family News
“Federal funds earmarked to offset Affordable Care Act insurer losses.” The Los Angeles Times 21 May, 2014 “The Obama administration has quietly adjusted key provisions of its signature healthcare law to potentially make billions of additional taxpayer dollars available to the insurance industry if companies providing coverage through the Affordable Care Act lose money. The … More Too Big To Fail
In the current debate about wages, both sides are presenting some good points in support of their own side and against the other side. This article will attempt to look at these points and address them from a distributist perspective. The Minimum Wage The argument for raising the minimum wage is that it is nearly, … More Wages: Minimum, Market, or Just?
In the introduction to this series, I stated that distributism is not a middle ground between capitalism on the one side and socialism on the other. Distributism is not an attempt to compromise between them. Instead, distributism stands outside of and completely apart from those systems. The goal of distributism is not to negotiate a … More Distributism Basics: Distributist Economic Society
Practical Distributism 