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Alternative economics, worker and family empowerment, the spirituality of work, the economy of sharing

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March 2020

March 17, 2020

Voices of Mondragon

David Herrera is a retired professor of education at the University of San Diego. In...

February 2020

February 17, 2020

Arizmendi’s Big House: Mondragón and the Culture of Cooperation

“It’s like a big house. A big house that belongs to everybody.” (Comment by a...

January 2020

January 19, 2020

What is Catholic Economics? An Upcoming Conversation with John Medaille

Asking what the term Catholic economics might mean strikes some people — too many, actually — as like asking...

December 2019

December 31, 2019

Remembering a Black Catholic Cooperativist: Fr. Albert McKnight

The upcoming "Economy of Francesco" event (previously described here) in Assisi March 26 – 28 will be...

December 18, 2019

A New Catholic Voice for a New Economy

Laudato Si’: perhaps the most important papal document since Rerum Novarum, Pope Francis’ “eco-encyclical” arrived...

October 2019

October 14, 2019

A Litmus Test for Integral Ecology: Amazonia

What’s going on this month at the Amazonian Synod in Rome, we need to remember,...

May 2017

May 10, 2017

Jesus, Taxes, and Charity

It’s sadly become somewhat de rigueur, particularly but not exclusively on the American political right,...

April 2017

April 26, 2017

Francis meets TED, Talks About ‘Solidarity’

How wonderful it would be if solidarity, this beautiful and, at times, inconvenient word, were...

November 2016

November 29, 2016

The Ultimate Deal: Privatizing the Presidency

Dispossessed of jobs and their dignity for a generation now or more, the Trump voters...

November 21, 2016

Lights Coming Back on in Gary

I knew my involvement in civic matters in northwest Indiana would eventually take me to...

October 2016

October 14, 2016

What I Saw on the Porch

In temporary relief from the ongoing telenovella of our impending national election, we habitues of the Front...

July 2016

July 02, 2016

What Wretches Feel: Neoliberalism is dying, we must replace it with something better

"The global economy is not working for the majority of people in our country and...

June 2016

June 09, 2016

Dumb Things I Used to Believe

Having come into the Church as a convert on Easter Sunday, 1986, I am what’s...

May 2016

May 30, 2016

A Saint for a New Socioeconomic Order

Saints, G.K. Chesterton once pointed out, are an antidote to whatever the age neglects. Such...

May 06, 2016

Substituting Charity for Justice

This is the skillful attempt that is being made to substitute Philanthropy for Justice. There...

May 04, 2016

Why You Might Not Want a ‘Strong Work Ethic’

Our society and morals are suffering because of this.

April 2016

April 19, 2016

“Running In and Out with a Flag” (the Distributist League)

“Look here,” G.B. Shaw once gently chaffed his friend and debating partner G.K. Chesterton, “Is...

April 08, 2016

Deconstructing the Corner Drugstore

If you haven't read Jeremy Beer's The Philanthropic Revolution: An Alternative History of American Charity,...

April 01, 2016

Can We Just Grow Jobs?

Those of you who know me know I have a few hobby horses I come...

March 2016

March 30, 2016

Boxed In

A few years ago, my wife and I were assigned a case through our local...

March 14, 2016

Insanity and Alienation in America: Revisited

On February 25th there was another "mass shooting," this time in Hesston, Kansas, just down...

February 2016

February 18, 2016

Two Roads to Gigantism

Gigantism is a condition characterized by excessive growth. In the human body, it is caused...

February 17, 2016

Gar Alperovitz on the Next System (Interview)

Gar Alperovitz, a founding principal of the Democracy Collaborative at the University of Maryland, is a chaired...

February 11, 2016

C.S. Lewis and the Prostitution of Work

Apropos of my previous outburst on the nature of contemporary work, it seems some clarification...

February 08, 2016

Bankers in Hell

In 2009 I was working on a project in Chicago which put me in contact...

February 01, 2016

Journal Entry of a Working Man

I have abhorred work for as long as I can remember. I don’t mean that...

January 2016

January 23, 2016

A Better Paradigm for Class Analysis

John Michael Greer over at The Archdruid Report has produced a great piece of analysis on the American economic...