Overall, the key corrolations are clear: functional families are strong and large; strong and large families are function-rich.
Allan Carlson
It should help open the ‘closed shop’ of economic theory to a potentially rich and fruitful debate.
Human nature, innate human longings, human biology, and human history are all on your side.
Perhaps out of these fissures and the current populist turmoil, someone might be able to craft a new, more coherent, and more promising Christian and Democratic coalition.
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In light of the the economic crisis – and the bright light it sheds on the failings of modern capitalism – there is a need to reconsider older arguments of a “Third Way,” a social and economic system that in important respects would be neither capitalist nor socialist.
In response to my posting on “‘A Distributist View of the Global Economic Crisis’: A Report,” several people asked for more specifics regarding the popssible shape of a contemporary Distributist public policy agenda. My address to the conference summarized such…
A conference with this title convened in St. Benet’s Hall, Oxford, England, on Saturday, July 11. Organized by the G.K. Chesterton Institute, the great Chestertonian Father Ian Boyd offered greetings to the participants while the gentlemanly Southern attorney, John Odom…
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One of the few “Austrian economists” to give serious attention to familial, agrarian, and communitarian themes was Wilhelm Röpke , born in Germany yet long associated with his adopted Switzerland. He saw family life as “natural and free,” with the…
