Sublime

That was one side of the argument: that the change would remove inequality; and there was an answer on the other side. It can be stated most truly by putting another model institution and edifice side by side with the Post Office. It is even more of an ideal republic, or commonwealth without competition or private profit. It supplies its citizens n

One pillar of Chesterton and Belloc’s philosophy was the principle of subsidiarity: that no entity (social, financial, or political) could take charge of any function if it could be handled by a smaller entity. Pope Pius XI defined the principle in his encyclical Quadragesimo Anno: “Just as it is wrong to withdraw from the individual and to commit

But it was, as we have seen, especially in social reform that Germany was believed to be leading the way, and to have found the secret of dealing with the economic evil. In the case of Insurance, which was the test case she was applauded for obliging all her workmen to set apart a portion of their wages for any time of sickness; and numerous other

This is the first principle of democracy: that the essential things in men are the things they hold in common, not the things they hold separately.

Pierre Laroque, l’architecte de la Sécurité sociale française après la Libération, n’a pas, quant à lui, légué son nom à une troisième catégorie. Mais ce haut fonctionnaire qui, ayant rejoint la Résistance à Londres, connaissait bien le plan Beveridge, n’en a pas moins profondément marqué le système français. On a ainsi pu affirmer que le système f

Cooperative enterprises, however, modify capitalist principles by limiting the amount of dividends earned, limiting