I was just reading an article from First Things on the mess that is the American economy at present. I didn’t understand much of what Mr Goldman said, but the part I thought I understood went something like this: the American economy only functions correctly when there are a lot of young people borrowing a [...]
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Homemakers, radical and not
I spent some of the afternoon looking over linked articles from a First Things blog on “radical homemakers” or the lack thereof. I’m not certain it was worth so much attention, but feel inclined to comment anyway. In summary: writer/small scale farmer Shannon Hayes has written a book recently extolling the virtues and rewards of [...]
Posted by Molly on July 2, 2010
http://mollydodd.wordpress.com/2010/07/02/homemakers-radical-and-not/
Modernist economics as gnosticism
The ancient Gnostics (such as the Manicheans Augustine got mixed up with in his youth) looked upon the material world as bad, a prison for the pure spirit. If only the spirit could be liberated into its purity, it would be wholly good. Thus Gnostics rejected the Hebrew Old Testament as a book of materialistic [...]
Posted by Molly on April 4, 2009
http://mollydodd.wordpress.com/2009/04/04/modernist-economics-as-gnosticism/
Distributism part 2
In part 1 I posted the definition of distributism. Politics is not my thing, nor is economics. I find the former distasteful, and the latter more mysterious than most miracles. This may have something to do with listening to conservative talk radio for three hours every weekday, over perhaps four years of adolescence. As a [...]
Posted by Molly on March 14, 2009
http://mollydodd.wordpress.com/2009/03/14/distributism-part-2/
Distributism
I’ve been reading, of late, about an economic model known as distributism. It was popular among Catholics 90 years ago, and is unlikely to woo many enthusiasts today. I’m going to assume my readers aren’t all familiar with the concept, and provide a definition (loath as I am to but into the current fad for Wikipedia definitions, [...]
Posted by Molly on March 10, 2009
http://mollydodd.wordpress.com/2009/03/10/distributism/
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