In his article, “Subsidiarity and the Single Payer,” Jack Quirk argues that a Single Payer system for health care services is consistent with the principles of subsidiarity and Catholic Social Teaching. He concludes his article by stating that the “principle of subsidiarity cannot legitimately be used to argue against a single-payer healthcare system. … Those … More Subsidiarity vs. Single Payer
by Thomas Storck Continued from Part 1 There are many supposed facts of economic life that any student of economics, or even any observer of political and economic news, is familiar with, matters such as unemployment, corporate mergers and acquisitions, labor relations, business cycles, and so on. I call these supposed facts, not because they … More Distributism and Capitalism: Some contrasting features – Part 2
by Thomas Storck G. K. Chesterton’s younger brother, Cecil, gave what is probably the most succinct definition of distributism, or rather of a distributist in an article he wrote in 1917. A Distributist is a man who desires that the means of production should, generally speaking, remain private property, but that their ownership should be … More Distributism and Capitalism: Some contrasting features – Part 1
by Thomas Storck Continued from Part 1 Next let us look at the question of cyclical unemployment, that type which comes about “when the overall demand for labor is low” because of a business cycle downturn. I am afraid my argument will seem hopelessly naive to most economists. But that does not mean that it … More Why Unemployment is a Pseudoproblem – Part 2
By Thomas Storck Unemployment a pseudoproblem? By calling it that, I do not mean that unemployment does not exist, or that it is not a very serious concern for the unemployed, their families and for society as a whole. What I mean and will argue here is that unemployment is not something natural to … More Why Unemployment is a Pseudoproblem – Part 1
Many critics of distributism claim that what we want to achieve would require the expansion of state power and that we really want an all powerful state. What we actually advocate is the decentralization of government power. We want to distribute the various powers of government as close to the local level as can be … More The Process of Subsidiarity
Practical Distributism 