Wednesday, November 29, 2023

The Framework of Economic Justice: The Out-Take Principle


Today’s blog posting is a selection from the book, Economic Personalism, which you can get free from the CESJ website, or from Amazon or Barnes and Noble.

Today we look at distributive justice, the “out-take principle” that governs distributions from a common endeavor.  Distributive justice, in one sense, is an individual virtue built on commutative justice, commutative justice being the most basic form of justice.

Monday, November 27, 2023

JTW Podcast: The Great Conversation, XXX

Life in the Clouds . . . of Aristophanes . . . an example of “the New Comedy” . . . of 2,000 years ago:

Friday, November 24, 2023

News from the Network, Vol. 16, No. 47



This week is another episode of “Non Novum Sub Soles.”  All the experts are busily trying to figure out ways the Keynesian system is really working when it really isn’t, and carefully avoiding figuring out ways to adopt the Economic Democracy Act:

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Wednesday, November 22, 2023

It’s Not an Either/Or Issue


Occasionally, we feel the urge to explain a little about social justice.  This is usually prompted by a comment or question from a faithful reader or two.  This time it was sparked by a comment someone made on FaceBook about how they aren’t interested in helping people one-on-one, but in changing the system that makes it necessary to help people.

Monday, November 20, 2023

JTW Podcast: The Great Conversation, XXIX


Why did Socrates refuse to escape and stay, knowing he would be sentenced to death?

Friday, November 17, 2023

News from the Network, Vol. 16, No. 46


This week the experts are trying to scare people by raising the specter of inflation versus recession . . . forgetting (or ignoring) the fact that there is no correlation between economic growth and inflation, and recession and lowering inflation.  This is evident once we understand the Just Third Way of Economic Personalism and economic reality as applied in the Economic Democracy Act:

Wednesday, November 15, 2023

The Framework of Economic Justice: The Input Principle


Today’s blog posting is a selection from the book, Economic Personalism, which you can get free from the CESJ website, or from Amazon or Barnes and Noble.

Monday, November 13, 2023

JTW Podcast: The Great Conversation, XXVIII


Is there a difference between apologizing and apologetics?  Specifically, in Plato’s Apologia, why didn’t Socrates apologize for anything . . . as we mean apologizing today?

Friday, November 10, 2023

News from the Network, Vol. 16, No. 45


Again, this week in the news items we have more of the same, only more so.  We know we sound like a broken record (obscure cultural allusion; “records” used to “break” in a way that would cause them to keep repeating the same phrase or notes over and over), but the only way we see out of the dilemma is to adopt the Economic Democracy Act:

Wednesday, November 8, 2023

The “Characteristics of Social Justice”


Today’s blog posting is a selection from the book, Economic Personalism, which you can get free from the CESJ website, or from Amazon or Barnes and Noble.

As we may have mentioned a few thousand times on this blog, personalist social justice is distinguished from the collectivist and individualist version by not being a substitute for charity or a euphemism for redistribution.  Need-based distribution is individual charity, except in cases of “extreme need” when it falls under distributive justice as an expedient.  Personalist social justice is the virtue concerned with restructuring the social order to make it possible for people to take care of themselves.

Monday, November 6, 2023

JTW Podcast: The Great Conversation, XXVII


What is the meaning and purpose of life?  To get more stuff?  Or to become more fully human, that is, virtuous?

Friday, November 3, 2023

News from the Network, Vol. 16, No. 44

The big news this week is that the Federal Reserve decided not to raise interest rates.  Yay.  Now if they would decide to take effective action by pushing for the Economic Democracy Act, we might get somewhere:

Wednesday, November 1, 2023

The “Laws of Social Justice”


Today’s blog posting is a selection from the book, Economic Personalism, which you can get free from the CESJ website, or from Amazon or Barnes and Noble.

Louis Kelso’s and Mortimer Adler’s breakthroughs in moral philosophy (with the principles of economic justice) and in economics and finance (with future savings) were “the missing links” in Catholic social teaching. Combined with Pius XI’s definition of social justice, Kelso’s and Adler’s financial systems concept and principles of economic justice — connecting economic personalism with economic justice — made a truly personalist social order possible as explicit policy for the first time in history.