Center for Economic and Social Justice
Quarterly Publications Flyer No. 1
(August 1, 2012 to October 31, 2012)
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PUBLICATIONS
Litir Scéala an tSIG Gaelach. The newsletter of the Irish Special Interest Group of American Mensa. Both the newsletter subscription and SIG membership are free. More free publications are listed at the end of this flyer.
Featured Publication:
William Thomas Thornton's 1848 Classic Proposal to End the Great Famine (1846-1852)
A PLEA FOR PEASANT PROPRIETORS
With the Outlines of a Plan for Their Establishment in Ireland
During the Great Famine in Ireland (1846-1852), William T. Thornton (1813-1880), an English economist, proposed that unused land be purchased by the government and sold on credit to families that would put it into production. In this way funds spent on famine relief would be turned from an expenditure into an investment, jobs would be created, and the benefits of widespread capital ownership would accrue to individuals, families and the nation. Although never adopted, later thinkers, offering a principled, growth-oriented approach for the 21st Century, refined Thornton's vision. As the global economy experiences ever-more-frequent downturns (with accelerating replacement of human labor by advanced technology, reinforced by flawed methods of finance that concentrate capital ownership in fewer and fewer hands) Thornton's book shines light on the path out of today's global dilemma. Originally published in 1848, this newly annotated and indexed edition of
A Plea for Peasant Proprietors was prepared from Thornton's 1874 revision includes a foreword that examines a new framework for solving the global financial crisis, financing economic growth and enabling every citizen to become an owner of productive capital, as well as appendices explaining topical references and the political and economic environment within which Thornton worked.
ISBN: 978-0944997109
364 pp.
$25.00
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The Emigrant's Guide
By William Cobbett. Cobbett, considered by G. K. Chesterton as the "Apostle of Distributism," wrote this book in 1829. He urged the poor in England to go to the United States, where instead of working for others and being effective slaves of the government and upper classes, they could obtain some small ownership of land or other capital and become independent — owners instead of being owned themselves. This book provides an incentive to modern politicians and policymakers to restore the greatness that was once America's, and begin to spread true economic democracy throughout the globe.
ISBN: 978-0944997017
264 pp.
$20.00
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The Formation of Capital
By Harold G. Moulton. This classic refutation of Keynesian monetary policy and radical prescription for balanced growth in today's private sector economy was written in 1935 by Dr. Harold G. Moulton, the first president of the Brookings Institution (1928-1952) in response to the unsound approach embodied in the New Deal. Its applicability to the present day is seen by the fact that speculative uses of money and credit, along with massive government and consumer debt, threaten to bankrupt families, companies, and nations alike. This book shows how we can reform the financial system to foster more rapid rates of sustainable growth while reversing our mounting deficits and debt. Moulton's work offers a framework for monetary policy that can spread prosperity, power and freedom to every citizen. Moulton also raises a radical point: Economic progress and growth need not be limited to existing accumulations of savings. Furthermore, his findings prove that the economy grows faster when it is not dependent on past savings, and businesses can employ "future savings" to finance their economic growth.
ISBN: 978-0944997086
234 pp.
$20.00
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In Defense of Human Dignity
By Michael D. Greaney. A compilation of articles previously appearing in
Social Justice Review, based on the Four Pillars of an Economically Just Society: 1) Limited economic role for the State, 2) Free and open markets, 3) Restoration of the rights of private property, and 4) Widespread direct ownership of the means of production. The Just Third Way is a holistic program developed by the interfaith Center for Economic and Social Justice ("CESJ") in Arlington, Virginia, USA, in response to the growing disparities of wealth and the failure of today's institutions to meet people's wants and needs in a manner consistent with their essential dignity as human beings. Analyzing the applications of natural law as expressed in Catholic social teaching, the articles demonstrate the universality of the principles underpinning the Just Third Way from the perspective of that particular faith tradition.
ISBN 978-0944997024
320 pp.
$20.00
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Capital Homesteading for Every Citizen
By Norman G. Kurland, et al. This book explains why America's economy isn't working the way it should. More important, this book explains how to fix the problem: too few own income-producing wealth (capital) and too many own nothing. Many people owe more than they own. "Capital Homesteading" is a 21st century version of Abraham Lincoln's 1862 Homestead Act. This brought about a broad distribution of the ownership of landed capital. Capital Homesteading expands the concept to include ownership of other forms of capital, e.g., advanced technologies in industry and commerce, including management, marketing and distribution systems, through equity shares in enterprises capable of competing without special protections within a free and just global economy. This can be done without redistribution of existing wealth, redefining basic rights to life, liberty or property, or government deficit spending, by using the "pure credit" techniques described by Harold Moulton in
The Formation of Capital, and the expanded ownership applications of Louis Kelso and Mortimer Adler in
The Capitalist Manifesto.
ISBN: 978-0944997000
256 pp.
$18.00
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FROM UNIVERSAL VALUES MEDIA
The Complete Novels of John Henry Newman:
Loss and Gain
Loss and Gain is the first of Newman's two novels. It is a fictionalized account of Newman's own faith journey, and account of the "Oxford Movement" that shook the English establishment of the day to the core. Potentially rivaling the work of such masters as Jane Austen and Charles Dickens, the deceptively simple plot presents a profound understanding of the human condition and English society of the early nineteenth century. It can be read with enjoyment and profit by people of every faith. This edition features a foreword by Michael D. Greaney, Director of Research for the Center for Economic and Social Justice in Arlington, Virginia, USA.
ISBN: 978-1602100039
328 pp.
$20.00
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Callista
A Sketch of the Third Century
Callista is a "Catholic" version of the "Early Christian Romance" genre that was popular in the nineteenth century. Most such productions rarely rose above the quality of Edward Bulwer-Lytton's
The Last Days of Pompeii or Charles Kingsley's
Hypatia. Some authorities credit Kingley's jealousy over the success of "Callista" and the obvious quality of Newman's novel in contrast to his own as the source of Kingsley's later violent attacks on Newman, to which Newman responded with his monumental
Apologia Pro Vita Sua, one of the greatest "spiritual autobiographies" ever written. Callista not only exhibits a high degree of literary accomplishment and historical accuracy, but is entertaining. This edition features a foreword by Michael D. Greaney, Director of Research for the Center for Economic and Social Justice in Arlington, Virginia, USA.
ISBN: 978-1602100046
280 pp.
$20.00
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The "Mainstream" Novels of Robert Hugh Benson
(These editions feature forewords by Michael D. Greaney, Director of Research for the Center for Economic and Social Justice in Arlington, Virginia, USA.)
A Winnowing
Mixing such seemingly incongruous elements as social satire, near-slapstick, and obsession with death,
A Winnowing flays Edwardian society in terms that bring to mind the comedy of P. G. Wodehouse, and the black humor of Evelyn Waugh.
ISBN 978-1-60210-005-3
224 pp.
$20.00
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None Other Gods
This gentle, yet profound satire relates the story of Frank Guiseley, a young man who drops out of college and tries to force God to instruct him personally on what God wants him to do. People of all faiths can appreciate the growing frustration and bafflement Frank experiences until he finally stops trying to make God listen to him, and starts listening to God.
ISBN 978-1-60210-006-0
312 pp.
$20.00
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The Coward
A young man is faced with challenges and manages to fail at every step. He becomes convinced he is an irredeemable coward, and only then begins to find courage. In a damning indictment of close-minded Edwardian society, a supreme act of courage on the young man's part is mistaken for yet one more craven act.
ISBN 978-1-60210-007-7
312 pp.
$20.00
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An Average Man
Possibly Benson's finest achievement,
An Average Man rips to shreds the assumptions on which Edwardian upper class society believed civilization itself was built. Worldly success destroys one "average man," while it presents another, afflicted with seemingly endless and crushing defeats, with the opportunity of practicing virtue of a heroic stature.
ISBN 978-1-60210-008-4
340 pp.
$20.00
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Initiation
Initiation explores the different types of pain with which people are afflicted, spiritual, psychological, and physical, none of it deserved, yet all of it leading to greater self-awareness and growth in understanding of what it means to be human. Despite the theme, the novel is both entertaining and profound.
ISBN 978-1-60210-009-1
360 pp.
$22.00
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Loneliness?
Loneliness? examines the life of a woman who sacrifices everything to be accepted by people who can see her only in terms of her singing ability and the roles she plays on the stage, and who is abandoned by them when she can no longer fit into their preconceived ideas.
Loneliness? may be Benson's least known, yet one of his most insightful — and entertaining — novels.
ISBN 978-1-60210-010-7
298 pp.
$20.00
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E-BOOKS (In Kindle from Amazon)
Follow this link to the website for science fiction and fantasy from a Just Third Way perspective. Most are only 99¢.
FREE PUBLICATIONS (In PDF)
Cuba: A New Beginning, by Michiel Bijkerk. Subtitled "March from Santa Fé to Neuva Paz,"
Cuba: A New Beginning is the record of an epic walk around the island. The author, an attorney and social activist from the Netherlands Antilles, undertook the effort to deliver word of the Just Third Way to the people of Cuba. In
English and in
Spanish.
Capital Homesteading for Every Citizen, by Norman G. Kurland,
et al. This is the free e-text version of the book described above.
The Capitalist Manifesto and
The New Capitalists, by Louis O. Kelso and Mortimer J. Adler. The books credited with starting the "ESOP Revolution."
Introduction to Social Justice, by CESJ co-founder Father William J. Ferree, S.M., Ph.D. Written in 1948 as a condensation of his 1941 doctoral thesis,
The Act of Social Justice, this pamphlet straightens out many misconceptions about social justice, and shows how, through effective social action, ordinary people can organize together in solidarity and work to reform the institutions of the common good for the betterment of all.
Curing World Poverty: The New Role of Property, edited by Rev. John H. Miller, C.S.C., S.T.D. This book shows how, by restructuring key social institutions, every person and family could become economically empowered through a direct ownership stake in the technological frontier. For policymakers, educators and decision-makers . . . for leaders in business, labor and government . . . for all groups and individuals concerned with issues of peace and justice —
Curing World Poverty presents principles for effecting just social change. It offers new solutions to a global crisis that has defied solutions under traditional economic frameworks.
Curing World Poverty offers a systemic yet achievable cure to world poverty.
ORDERING INFORMATION
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