Distributist & sustainable economics

Distributist & sustainable economics

Two interview from 2010: John C. Médaille summarizes how distributist economics differs from both capitalism and socialism. Then Herman Daly discusses the danger of economic theory abstracted from the actual stuff of Creation. (44 minutes)
The idolatry of giantism

The idolatry of giantism

E. F. Schumacher on why scale matters
Community, the giver of freedom

Community, the giver of freedom

Thomas H. Naylor and William H. Willimon on why suspicion about big government shouldn’t take the form of autonomous individualism
Rejecting the “big” deal

Rejecting the “big” deal

In Downsizing the U.S.A. (1997) Thomas Naylor and William Willimon argued that modern societies are guilty of worshipping bigness, and that many social and political problems are caused by problems of scale. (23 minutes)