A number of
projects have made great progress over the past week, from the proposed re-launch
of The Just Third Way Hour to the
final editing and review of Red Star Over
Bethlehem. Perhaps it won’t be too
much longer before world leaders start catching on to the fact that there is a
viable alternative to the sad condition of today’s society:
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| Pope Pius XI |
• The manuscript of Red Star Over Bethlehem has been sent to
selected individuals for review and comment . . . and as a fair warning that
some accepted assumptions about things like economic and social justice just
might be due for a little shaking up in the near future. This first book of a possible “trilogy”
covers the development of the concept of social justice. If it proves successful, the next projected
volume will cover the development of economic justice, with emphasis on the
importance of access to money and credit, as well as sound monetary principles
— something the world got away from in the nineteenth century as governments
expanded their role and began intruding more and more into the daily life of
individuals instead of confining themselves to caring for the common good. A possible title for the second volume is Love of Money, suggested by St. Paul’s
comment to Timothy that it is love of money, not money, that is the root of all
evil. A third volume would focus on the
need to reform the system along the lines proposed by Louis Kelso and Pope Pius
XI, and might be titled Alea Iacta Est
(“the Die is Cast”), to indicate that the world cannot either stay where it is
economically, or go back to what it was.
It must, rather, move forward and “cross the Rubicon.”
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| President Ronald Reagan |
• Presidential Task Force on Project Economic Justice. We recently received the “e-copies” of two of
CESJ’s most important publications that came out of the Presidential Task Force
on Project Economic Justice, Every Worker
an Owner, and High Road to Economic
Justice. These were the result of the original strategy paper that led to the Task Force, and the
occasion of the complete text of President Reagan’s
speech to the Task Force. The bipartisan Task Force report, High Road to Economic Justice, was presented
to both President Ronald Reagan and Pope St. John Paul II in special meetings,
the former praising the work of the Task Force, and the latter giving us his
personal encouragement for our work. The
report was translated into Polish and 40,000 copies distributed through
Solidarity channels. We expect to have
both books up soon on the CESJ website for free downloading.
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| Charles A. Conant |
• We discovered this week that many
of the long-forgotten works of the Scottish lawyer, banker, and “maverick
economist” Henry Dunning Macleod (1821-1902) have become available for (almost)
reasonable prices. This will greatly
facilitate research into the great “sea change” that happened in the nineteenth
century with monetary theory, and the shift from the Banking Principle to the
Currency Principle that currently plagues the global economy. Combined with the work of Charles A. Conant (1861-1915),
Harold G. Moulton (1883-1965), and — of course — Louis O. Kelso (1913-1991), this
will greatly increase people’s understanding of what happened. Knowing that, it will be much simpler fixing
the problem.
• The re-launch of CESJ’s The Just Third Way Hour is getting
closer. Four shows have been recorded,
and it is now a question of releasing them in the way best calculated to
maximize their impact as teaching tools of the new paradigm.
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| Henry Dunning Macleod |
• Shop online and support CESJ’s work! Did you know that by making
your purchases through the Amazon Smile
program, Amazon will make a contribution to CESJ? Here’s how: First, go to https://smile.amazon.com/. Next, sign in to your Amazon 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.
• We have had visitors from 32 different countries and 45 states
and provinces in the United States and Canada to this blog over the past week.
Most visitors are from the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, India, and
Brazil. The most popular postings this
past week in descending order were “A Few Thoughts on Mondragon,” “Austria’s
Shift Right . . . or Left,” “News from the Network, Vol. 10, No. 41,” “Nothing
Succeeds Like Secess,” and “Thomas Hobbes on Private Property.”
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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