Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
How big a town or city would we need for a guild to develop to meet the need for regulation? And how could we guarantee that they don’t act like a monopolist? Who will regulate the regulators? At what...
View ArticleDistributism: Economics as if People Mattered
In truly “prophetic” utterances, the analysis of present circumstances, along with a consideration of the laws written into human nature which manifest themselves in history, can yield a prediction...
View ArticleCapitalist Monopolies vs Distributist Guilds
When distributists advocate the institution of local guilds to eliminate monopoly, some supporters of maintaining the monopolistic status quo claim that doing this would result in lower quality, fewer...
View ArticleThe Vocational Group
“We approach the subject with confidence, and in the exercise of the rights which belong to Us. For no practical solution of this question will ever be found without the assistance of Religion and the...
View ArticleDistributism and the Health Care System
Distributism would be of little practical use if it could not provide useful answers to practical problems of the type we face practically every day. I believe Distributism does indeed provide a useful...
View ArticleThe Guild System
The Guild is the oldest, most necessary, most deeply rooted, of all human institutions. It has appeared in all civilizations which are at all stable, because it is necessary to stability. It has...
View ArticleInnovation
One claim critics of Distributism frequently make is that the elimination of large monopolies with their wealth will bring innovation and technological development to a virtual halt. They cannot seem...
View ArticleCan Guilds Save Education?
One of the suggestions given by distributist thinkers is to reintroduce the guild system into modern economics. This suggestion is often met with fierce resistance. We are often told we are crazy. But...
View ArticleThe Recovery of the Guilds
Is it possible that the guilds, those great symbols of medieval culture and enterprise, might be restored to life in our own time? The guilds were an association of freemen, of craftsmen working...
View ArticleWhat We Can Learn from the Guilds
No one is arguing for an exact return to the medieval guilds, any more than advocating that people should go around talking Chaucerian English.
View ArticleAnti-Union Hypocrisy and the Janus Case
The same radical individualism that wants unions to be nothing but ineffectual voluntary organizations likewise sees marriage and the family as mere voluntary associations.
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