Capitalism and Freedom

Volkswagen Cheating, Peanut Butter Salmonella, and Challenges to Conscious Capitalism

Oct 4, 2015

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...

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CEOs Who Have To Apologize

Sep 20, 2015

CEOs Who Have To Apologize

Volkswagen CEO ‘deeply sorry’ for breach of US environment rules FRANKFURT/HAMBURG (Reuters) – Volkswagen...

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Reply to Objection 1: Private Property Does Not Contradict Natural Law

Jul 3, 2015

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...

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Aquinas’s Second Objection to Private Property: Don’t take too many seats in the theater

Jun 27, 2015

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...

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Aquinas on the Relationship of Natural Law and Human Law

Jun 23, 2015

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...

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Aquinas’s First Objection to Private Property: Everything is in common by natural law

Jun 23, 2015

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...

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Aquinas on Private Property

Jun 17, 2015

Aquinas on Private Property

This is the beginning of Aquinas’s discussion of private property. Previously, I discussed Aquinas’s...

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The Market Should Not be 0ur God (and economists should no longer be our source of morality)

Mar 23, 2015

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...

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Capitalism and Freedom – A Short Critique of Milton Friedman.

Mar 14, 2015

Capitalism and Freedom – A Short Critique of Milton Friedman.

Or why capitalism and freedom are not necessarily the same thing, despite what Milton...

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