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]]> A Radical Legal Ideology Nurtured Our Era of Economic Inequality https://brewminate.com/a-radical-legal-ideology-nurtured-our-era-of-economic-inequality/ Tue, 25 Jun 2019 18:39:08 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=100627 Where does economic power come from? Does it exist independently of the law? It seems obvious, even undeniable,

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]]> Get Thee to a Phalanstery: or, How Fourier Can Still Teach Us to Make Lemonade https://brewminate.com/get-thee-to-a-phalanstery-or-how-fourier-can-still-teach-us-to-make-lemonade/ Fri, 07 Jun 2019 17:34:47 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=96389 Hot on the heels of the French revolution — by way of extravagant orgies, obscure taxonomies, and lemonade

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]]> Rich and Poor: Economic Thought from Thomas Aquinas to John Locke and Adam Smith https://brewminate.com/rich-and-poor-economic-thought-from-thomas-aquinas-to-john-lock-and-adam-smith/ Fri, 01 Mar 2019 18:29:02 +0000 https://brewminate.com/?p=87468 Starting with the medieval poor/rich-topics in the Aquinian tradition of the theological economy of charity, following a relatively

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