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Ideologies / Distributist / John Médaille
John Médaille — ink portrait
§ The minds · b. 1950 · United States · Author & theorist

John Médaille

Toward a truly free market

Modern distributist economics.

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A leading contemporary distributist whose work revives Chesterton and Belloc's ideas as a serious modern economic alternative built on widespread ownership and subsidiarity.

social

Catholic traditionalist.

economic

Widely-owned property and just wages as the basis of real markets.

governance

Subsidiarity — decisions at the most local level possible.

Notable for
  • 'Toward a Truly Free Market'
  • Modern distributist theory
  • Subsidiarity economics
distributismsubsidiarityjust-wage
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