Tag: Hilaire Belloc

  • Distributism – Essential Reading

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    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…

  • Distributism and the Internet

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    I’m posting the following article by Daniel McInerny from aleteia, a Catholic publication, in its entirety.  It reflects much of my own thinking.  I’ve only recently learned about distributism,  an economic philosophy that arose as a countervailing force to the laissez faire capitalism and rampant industrialization taking place at the turn of the 20th century.…