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    Toward a Truly Free Market: A Distributist Perspective on the Role of Government, Taxes, Health Care, Deficits, and More
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    Toward a Truly Free Market: A Distributist Perspective on the Role of Government, Taxes, Health Care, Deficits, and More

    By John Medaille

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    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. Médaille, 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.

    In Toward a Truly Free Market, Médaille not only points out the problems, but also offers viable solutions, showing how we can:


    Slash the federal budget by half
    Reduce the tax code from nine million words to a couple of pages
    Drastically curb the government’s sprawling bureaucracy
    Manage natural resources safely, while cutting the budget in half
    End the bailouts
    Really reform the health care system
    And much more

    In Toward a Truly Free Market, Médaille 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, Médaille enters the economic debate on purely economic terms.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateApr 29, 2014
    ISBN9781497644366
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    Toward a Truly Free Market: A Distributist Perspective on the Role of Government, Taxes, Health Care, Deficits, and More
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    John Medaille

    John C. Medaille is the author of The Vocation of Business: Social Justice in the Marketplace and an instructor at the University of Dallas. He writes and lectures frequently on economics. Medaille has more than thirty years' experience in management at large corporations and as a small businessman, and he served five terms as a city councilman in his hometown of Irving, Texas.

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      former student, looking forward to reading/updating here! I'll start at 3 stars for neutral but I'm sure it's gonna be a 5 if it's anything like The Vocation for Business!