Toward a Truly Free Market
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Toward a Truly Free Market

A Distributist Perspective on the Role of Government, Taxes, Health Care, Deficits, and More

  1. 288 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Toward a Truly Free Market

A Distributist Perspective on the Role of Government, Taxes, Health Care, Deficits, and More

About this book

Taking "free markets" from rhetoric to reality For three decades free-market leaders have tried to reverse longstanding Keynesian economic policies, but have only produced larger government, greater debt, and more centralized economic power. So how can we achieve a truly free-market system, especially at this historical moment when capitalism seems to be in crisis?The answer, says John C. Medaille, is to stop pretending that economics is something on the order of the physical sciences; it must be a humane science, taking into account crucial social contexts. Toward a Truly Free Market argues that any attempt to divorce economic equilibrium from economic equity will lead to an unbalanced economy—one that falls either to ruin or to ruinous government attempts to redress the balance.Medaille makes a refreshingly clear case for the economic theory—and practice—known as distributism. Unlike many of his fellow distributists, who argue primarily from moral terms, Medaille enters the economic debate on purely economic terms. Toward a Truly Free Market shows exactly how to end the bailouts, reduce government budgets, reform the tax code, fix the health-care system, and much more.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Chapter 1: What’s in a Name?
  4. Chapter 2: If It Ain’t Broke…
  5. Chapter 3: Political Economy as a Science
  6. Chapter 4: The Purpose of an Economy
  7. Chapter 5: Equilibrium, or The Tao of Economics
  8. Chapter 6: Justice and the Political Economy
  9. Chapter 7: The Fictitious Commodities: Money
  10. Chapter 8: The Fictitious Commodities: Labor
  11. Chapter 9: The Fictitious Commodities: Land
  12. Chapter 10: Property as Proper to Man
  13. Chapter 11: The Just Wage as the Key to Equilibrium
  14. Chapter 12: Taxes and Tax Reform
  15. Chapter 13: The Proper Role of Government
  16. Chapter 14: The Cost of Government
  17. Chapter 15: Taxes, Economic Rent, and Externalities
  18. Chapter 16: Distributism and Industrial Policy
  19. Chapter 17: Distributism and the Health Care System
  20. Chapter 18: The Practice of Distributism
  21. Chapter 19: Building the Ownership Society
  22. About the Author
  23. Notes
  24. Select Bibliography
  25. Index
  26. Copyright