fbpx
Facebook Twitter Instagram Youtube Rss
Pillar

Business & Economics

The fifth pillar, business and economics, is built upon concern for the common good and the ways in which the economic order contributes to—or detracts from—human flourishing. Public Discourse examines the ways in which the market is shaped by—and gives shape to—our understanding of the human person, the role of the family, the rule of law, and education and culture.

Do Goods Have an Inherently Just Price?

By

Learn more about Business & Economics: get your free eBook today!

Subscribe
Subscribe
Subscribe
Subscribe
Subscribe

Why I am Not a Libertarian

By
Libertarianism and conservatism are often lumped together, but there are fundamental differences between the two philosophies that make them incompatible.

When Being Pro-Life Isn’t Enough to Stop Abortion

By
The challenge in preventing abortion of Down syndrome fetuses is not convincing mothers that their child is a human being with a right to life, but of assuring expectant mothers there will be support for their children after they are born.

The Bishops and the Mandate: Principled Witness vs. Politics as Usual

By , and
The controversy over the HHS mandate is not a spat about wonkish detail or tribal privilege. It remains a struggle for the principle of religious freedom, the soul of civil society.

The HHS Mandate, Cooperation with Evil, and Coercion

By
The fundamental problem with the mandate is that it coerces some people into doing what they think is wrong, and this problem remains regardless of whether the coercion excuses the actions of the people being coerced.

Obama’s Contraception Cram-down: The Pork Precedent

By
An ancient example of resistance to a tyrant’s attempt to coerce violations of religious conscience provides an interesting perspective on resistance to the Obama administration’s recent healthcare coverage mandate.

Conservative Poverty Fighting

By
Neither liberal nor libertarian, a principled conservative way of helping the poor.

Tax Romney, not Corporations

By
It’s time to end the corporate income tax: it strains job-creating businesses, punishes workers rather than capital owners, encourages wealthy companies to find loopholes in the tax system, and allows some of the richest among us to pay strangely low personal income tax rates.

Social Justice, Institutions, and Communities

By
A successful account of social justice must affirm the primacy of communities, and institutions directed by communities, over both the individual and the state in promoting human flourishing.

Trust-Busting and Trusting in the Administrative State

By
The Obama administration’s efforts to regulate the cellular-phone service market through a decades-old trust-busting ideology is at odds with the courts’ more recent “new learning” approach to market competition. And there are lessons here for pro-lifers.

The Great Recession: What Will You Tell Your Grandchild?

By
Economic, political, and ethical principles that encourage limited government must interact in our effort to secure long-term economic stability.

Monetary Possibilities for a Post-Euro Europe

By
The eurozone’s current crisis is an opportunity for Europe to explore new monetary options that challenge the hitherto dominant vision of the European Union’s economic future.

Conservatives and Social Justice

By
Conservatives shouldn’t ignore or attack social justice, but must articulate sound principles of social justice.

Human Development and Human Flourishing: Creating Capabilities Isn’t Enough

By
Rawlsian “public reason” approaches to human capabilities are insufficient bases for social justice.

Private Property and Human Flourishing

By
Private property should be preserved and protected because of its deep contribution to human well-being.

Healthcare, Conscience, and Religious Liberty: A Response to Linda Greenhouse

By
New York Times reporter Linda Greenhouse refuses to see the truth about contraception, conscience, and religious liberty.

Keynesianism, Social Services, and Solvency

By
Growing national debt-to-income ratios need not become a threat to American solvency or a long-run impediment to implementation of our social policy choices. Historically-based approaches to social objectives can be improved through advances in economics.

Help the Sick and Reduce the Debt: The Moral Economy of the Health-Care Debate

By
The health-care debate presents us with a moral imperative to solve an economic problem, but how we solve this economic problem has moral implications: allowing individuals and families greater freedom to choose among treatment options in a market that drives down costs, or establishing centralized control that makes utilitarian calculations of the worth of different people’s lives.

Fix America’s Economy: Two Principles for Reform

By
Candidates in the 2012 presidential race should champion two principles for reviving America’s economy: the Adam Smith principle for limiting government and the subsidiarity principle for regulating government intervention.

Contraception and Healthcare Rights

By
Contraception does not respond to an authentic healthcare need, and the state acts untruthfully and beyond its legitimate authority when it mandates contraception coverage.

The Debt Ceiling and the Constitution

By
The attempts by both the right and the left to politicize our Constitution must be firmly rejected for the sake of our nation’s health and prosperity.

The Two-Biological-Parent Family and Economic Prosperity: Where to Go From Here

By
Five suggestions for how our nation can regain a healthy marriage culture and the economic prosperity and personal flourishing that comes with it. The second in a two-part series.

The Two-Biological-Parent Family and Economic Prosperity: What’s Gone Wrong

By
Research shows the positive economic effect of two-biological-parent families on our society. Single parenthood and other alternative family structures not only hurt our economy, they hurt our children, those who care for them, and those for whom our children will care later in life. The first in a two-part series.

Planned Parenthood’s Lawless Policies

By
Planned Parenthood must account for its disregard for the law if it wishes to retain state funding.

Social Contracts, Human Flourishing, and the Economy

By
Our current economic debates underscore the case for an approach to political economy that rejects social contract theory and embraces a robust conception of human flourishing.
Facebook Twitter Instagram Youtube Rss

Public Discourse © 2023 / All Rights Reserved

Get your free eBook for The Human Person

"*" indicates required fields

Get your free eBook for Sexuality & Family

Get your free eBook for Politics & Law

Get your free eBook for Education & Culture

Get your free eBook for Business & Economics