Toward a truly free market
Subtitle: a distributist perspective on the role of government, taxes, health care, deficits, and more
By: John C. Médaille
Series: Culture of enterprise series; Culture of enterprise series
Publisher: ISI Books
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Wilmington, Del
Language: eng
Number of pages: 282
ISBN-13: 9781935191810
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-266) and index.