For those of you who subscribe, Dale Ahlquist has an excellent article about Distributism and industries like airlines in the latest issue of Gilbert Magazine. For those of you who don’t subscribe, I recommend you head on over to The American Chesterton Society to rectify the situation.
[Editor’s note: This article was originally published as “Have Smith’s Theories Been Proven to Work In Spite Of the Presence of Government Meddling in Economics?.” After further reflection, I determined that the original article was attempting to critique Smith’s theories during time which, as demonstrated in the previous article, his theories were not even being … More Does Capitalism Work?
by David W. Cooney There is, in the vast realm of people calling themselves capitalists, a very peculiar group. While, like all capitalists, they claim that capitalism is responsible for every material advancement and new technology since they days of Adam Smith, they simultaneously claim that every economic problem that has occurred is not the … More Has Smith's Capitalism Ever Been Tried?
With its emphasis on local economy, local markets, local farms, local government and, maybe most of all, guilds, would it be fair to say that distributists are longing for a return to the way things were in the medieval era? Are distributists merely a group of anachronistic dreamers with romantic views of medieval life, not … More Distributism and Medieval Romanticism
This article was originally published by The Distributist Review on 11 April, 2011 When distributists advocate the institution of local guilds to eliminate monopoly, some supporters of maintaining the monopolistic status quo claim that doing this would result in lower quality, fewer options for the consumer and higher prices. One reader claimed that the real … More Capitalist Monopolies vs. Distributist Guilds
A favorite charge against distributism is that it is just another form of socialism. This is based on a false assumption taken from the name of the movement, that distributism is nothing more than the redistribution of wealth. While distributism desires to establish a wide distribution of wealth, the means of accomplishing that goal are … More Distributism and Obamacare
Practical Distributism 