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Toward a truly free market, a distributist perspective on the role of government, taxes, health care, deficits, and more, John C. Médaille

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Toward a truly free market, a distributist perspective on the role of government, taxes, health care, deficits, and more, John C. Médaille

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Toward a truly free market

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

747037860

Responsibility statement

John C. Médaille

Series statement

Culture of enterprise series

Sub title

a distributist perspective on the role of government, taxes, health care, deficits, and more

Summary

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.--Book jacket

Table Of Contents

What's in a name? -- If it ain't broke... -- Political economy as a science -- The purpose of an economy -- Equilibrium, or the tao of economics -- Justice and the political economy -- The fictitious commodities: money -- The fictitious commodities: labor -- The fictitious commodities; land -- Property as proper to man -- The just wage as the key to equilibrium -- Taxes and tax reform -- The proper role of government -- The cost of government -- Taxes, economic rent, externalities -- Distributism and industrial policy -- Distributism and the health care system -- The practice of distributism -- Building the ownership society

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