Economics
Beyond Capitalism and Socialism
By: Blum, Christopher O., Ph.D.
Obliterating the notion that there are only two choices - right and left - for perspectives on social and economic life, this apologia by twelve Catholics for a socio-economic life based upon the Social Doctrine of the Catholic Church offers an outline of independent operator-owners, regulative guilds, and economic science subordinated to morality and the genuine needs of mankind.
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Orage and the New Age
By: Taylor, Gary
The New Age was at the center of Edwardian-era political thought, featuring articles by Distributists and Guildsmen such as G. R. S. Taylor, A. J. Penty, G. K. Chesterton, and Hilaire Belloc. Taylor examines the impact of editor A. R. Orage upon the paper, and sketches diverse aspects of the social movement in England during the pre- and post-WWI period.
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G D H Cole and the National Guilds League
By: Taylor, Gary
Essential background to the Catholic movement of Penty and his “regulative” guilds, Dr. Taylor's volume traces the thought of G. D. H. Cole and his role in the origins, formation, and development of the influential National Guilds League. It also studies the relationship between the National Guilds movement and the widely varying labor movement in early-20th-century England.
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Economics for Helen
By: Belloc, Hilaire
A compact and useful primer on economic concepts by one of the English-speaking Catholic world's greatest 20th-century commentators. Belloc cuts through the jargon of modern "orthodox" economics - so often a mask for pure social Darwinism - and offers a sane, human, and Catholic alternative.
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