I’ve just had the great pleasure of reading the uncorrected page proof’s of John Médaille’s forthcoming book, Toward a Truly Free Market (ISI Books), which I confidently predict will be a classic distributist text, deserving a place of honour beside Schumacher’s Small is Beautiful. Here is the brief endorsement that I’ve supplied to the publisher:

This is a book that will change minds, a book that challenges us to change the way that we think about the world in which we live. It is radical in the best sense of the word, discovering the root of the problem, and, when necessary, calling for the root itself to be uprooted. And yet, at the same time, it is deeply tradition-oriented, taking its bearings from the greatest philosophers of western civilization. In its power-punching pages, John Médaille takes up the cudgels and throws down the gauntlet to the ideologues of both left and right, exposing the bankrupt theories of neo-conservatives and “progressive” socialists and linking these bankrupt theories to the bankrupt reality of modern political economy. Toward a Truly Free Market is not only groundbreaking but earth shattering, shaking our understanding of political economy to its very foundations. When nothing is left of conventional economics but the rubble of its discredited aftermath, the foundations that remain will be the basis for a just and sustainable future.