Volkswagen Cheating, Peanut Butter Salmonella, and Challenges to Conscious Capitalism
I’ve been pondering several different paradigms for thinking about the growing movement to combine...
Howard I. Schwartz Ph.D.
Capitalism and Freedom
CEOs Who Have To Apologize
Volkswagen CEO ‘deeply sorry’ for breach of US environment rules FRANKFURT/HAMBURG (Reuters) – Volkswagen...
Reply to Objection 1: Private Property Does Not Contradict Natural Law
Private property does not contradict natural law, in which everything is in common. Aquinas...
Aquinas’s Second Objection to Private Property: Don’t take too many seats in the theater
A rich person who keeps too much surplus is like a theater goer who...
Aquinas on the Relationship of Natural Law and Human Law
How does Aquinas understand private property’s relationship to natural law? This question is a...
Aquinas’s First Objection to Private Property: Everything is in common by natural law
If everything is in common according to natural law, how can there be private...
Aquinas on Private Property
This is the beginning of Aquinas’s discussion of private property. Previously, I discussed Aquinas’s...
The Market Should Not be 0ur God (and economists should no longer be our source of morality)
One of the stranger and more problematic changes in the modern period is the...
Capitalism and Freedom – A Short Critique of Milton Friedman.
Or why capitalism and freedom are not necessarily the same thing, despite what Milton...