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?
by David W. Cooney Well, it’s been six long years of the three programs known as Quantitative Easing, or “QE.” The first, under president Bush, was for $750 billion. The second, under president Obama, was for another $800 billion. The third, also under Obama, was an ongoing payment by the U.S. government of $85 billion … More The End of QE
One response to my Distributism Basics article on the Science of Economics was the assertion that economics can be studied apart from ethics. According to critics of the article, I was incorrectly attempting to join two topics that don’t necessarily go together. These critics at least seemed to agree that ethics did apply to economic … More The Laws of Economics
One reaction to this Distributism Basics series is that a particular group of commenters has asserted that their economic and political theories are so close to distributism as to make them virtually indistinguishable. In various ways, they have assured me that, if I would only read the writings explaining their views, I would be left … More Distributism Basics: Distributism vs. Christian Socialism
© 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?
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 