The recent volatility in the stock
market reinforces the fact that the stock market has little or nothing to do
with the real, productive economy. That
being the case, here are some meaningful news items from the Just Third Way:
• But before we start, here’s the usual announcement about
the Amazon Smile program. To participate in the Amazon Smile program
for CESJ, go to https://smile.amazon.com/. Next, sign in to your account. (If you don’t have an account with Amazon,
you can create one by clicking on the tiny little link below the “Sign in using
our secure server” button.) Once you
have signed into your account, you need to select CESJ as your charity — and
you have to be careful to do it exactly this way: in the
space provided for “Or select your own charitable organization” type “Center for Economic and Social Justice
Arlington.” If you type anything
else, you will either get no results or more than you want to sift
through. Once you’ve typed (or copied
and pasted) “Center for Economic and
Social Justice Arlington” into the space provided, hit “Select” — and you
will be taken to the Amazon shopping site, all ready to go.
• Joe Recinos has reported that from the news reports coming
out of Venezuela, the country is either on the verge of civil war, or the army
will stage a coup and take over. Joe has
been sending Just Third Way material to some of the politicians, but has had no
substantive response.
• CESJ’s latest book, Easter
Witness: From Broken Dream to a New Vision for Ireland, is available from Amazon
and Barnes
and Noble, as well as by special order from many “regular” bookstores. The book can also be ordered in bulk, which
we define as ten copies or more of the same title, at a 20% discount. A full case is twenty-six copies, and
non-institutional/non-vendor purchasers get a 20% discount off the $20 cover
price on wholesale lots ($416/case).
Shipping is extra. Send enquiries
to publications@cesj.org. An additional discount may be available for
institutions such as schools, clubs, and other organizations as well as
retailers. Initial sales are
encouraging, and CESJ (although interfaith) has applied for an “imprimatur”
which will allow the book to be used as a text in Catholic schools. We received word that the books ordered for
the Archbishop of Dublin have been shipped and should arrive today or early
next week.
• There will be a meeting next week with people from
Virginia Tech to discuss the Just Third Way.
• Members of the CESJ core group are attending the annual ESOP
Association conference this week.
• As of this morning, we have had
visitors from 58 different countries and 48 states and provinces in the United
States and Canada to this blog over the past two months. Most visitors are from
the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Brazil, and India. The most
popular postings this past week in descending order were “Thomas Hobbes on
Private Property,” “Aristotle on Private Property,” “The Purpose of
Production,” “Why a Central Bank: More Practical Considerations,” and “A Video
on Money.”
Those are the happenings for this week, at least those that
we know about. If you have an
accomplishment that you think should be listed, send us a note about it at
mgreaney [at] cesj [dot] org, and we’ll see that it gets into the next “issue.” If you have a short (250-400 word) comment on
a specific posting, please enter your comments in the blog — do not send them
to us to post for you. All comments are
moderated, so we’ll see it before it goes up.
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