Tag: GK Chesterton

Distributism – Essential Reading

Apr 6, 2014

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Daniela

in Uncategorized

For those of you who are interested in Distributism, here are a few good places to start. Belloc’s book, The Restoration of Property and Chesterton’s An Outline of Sanity. Wilhelm Ropke is clearly sympathetic to many distributist ideas in his A Humane Economy. A more recent treatment is by John Medaille titled Toward a Truly Free Market. These will get…
Pope Francis and Distributism

Apr 6, 2014

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by

Daniela

in New Economy

There appears to be a new interest in Distributism, possibly because of Pope Francis’ first apostolic exhortation, “Evangelii Gaudium.” Arthur Hunt in The American Conservative puts the Pope’s message into the context of Catholic social teaching. “The problems of the poor could not be solved by a “simple welfare mentality.” Well, by what then? The document is…