This Friday, October 25 at 8 a.m. US Central Time, live on Zoom, Prof. Martin Chung (Hong Kong Baptist University/Center for the Study of Ethnic Conflict, Queens University Belfast) will give a lecture introducing us to Catholic Social Teaching on Economic Life and the International Community. We are doing this live session early because of … Read more
On Tuesday, November 28 at 7 p.m. US Central Time, Deacon Christopher May will be leading a session on The Universal Destination of Goods, live on Zoom. Our prevailing economic order assumes that ownership of property implies the right to almost any arbitrary use, or non-use, of that property. However, the Catholic tradition teaches that … Read more
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Spencer, Emily and Laurie continue their conversation about the history and “failure” of the first attempt, instigated by Spencer, to start an urban farm collective, based on sharing resources and labor, in Kansas City. We discuss the various obstacles Spencer, and then Emily too, continued to face as they tried to cooperate with others who claim to share the same values and goals. What does it take to get people who agree they are of like minds to actually consistently cooperate? This is not an easy question to answer, but it gets to the heart of why most experiments like this are ultimately deemed “utopian.” If we understand the main pitfalls, does that help us find a way to succeed, even a little