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There was a whole school of economic thought around the idea of widely distributed ownership and the family (as the organic, root institution of sustainability)
by carsongross 10y ago
There was a whole school of economic thought around the idea of widely distributed ownership and the family (as the organic, root institution of sustainability) that died in the conflagration of WW2, called Distributism:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributism
This, along with populism (Texas-style, pre-1900) and Georgism are historical economic movements with interesting things to say about the world today that have sadly been largely memory-holed.