distributism
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28 sectionsContents
- Overview
- Background
- Economic theory
- Private property
- Redistribution of wealth and productive assets
- Guild system
- Banks
- Social theory
- Human family
- Subsidiarity
- Social security
- Politics
- Influence
- E. F. Schumacher
- Mondragon Corporation
- Guild of St Joseph and St Dominic
- Big Society
- List of distributist parties
- Current
- Historical
- Notable distributists
- Historical
- Contemporary
- Key texts
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- External links
thumb|upright=1.0|Self-portrait of G. K. Chesterton based on the distributist slogan "[[Three acres and a cow"]]
Distributism is an economic theory asserting that the world's productive assets should be widely owned rather than concentrated. Developed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, distributism was based upon Catholic social teaching principles, especially those of Pope Leo XIII in his encyclical Rerum novarum (1891) and Pope Pius XI in Quadragesimo anno (1931). It has influenced Anglo Christian Democratic movements, and has been recognized as one of many influences on the social market economy.