An Evil Means to a Good End? Belloc’s “Essay on the Restoration of Property”

By |2024-07-26T17:38:58-05:00September 27th, 2010|Categories: Distributism, Economics, Hilaire Belloc, John Creech, Political Economy|

Does Hilaire Belloc’s proposed transition to a proprietary economy leave us with only an evil means to otherwise good end? I ended my last reflection on Hilaire Belloc’s An Essay on the Restoration of Property by asking whether the government redistribution of property is the only way to make the transition from a non-proprietary state [...]