Folia Theologica 11. (2000)
Eugene Csocsan de Váralja: The Just Income Distribution
THE JUST INCOME DISTRIBUTION 137 satisfaction of consumers. In such an economy the beneficial effects of the large investments could not spread further on the free market. State capitalism exploits not only the consumers, but the workers as well, as the monopoly of the state appears as monopsony on the labour market. It can force down wages to starving levels and abolishing family wages it can compel mothers to leave their families and join the labour- force. d) Looking back to our previous investigations we have seen, that the fundamental aims of economy correspond organically to the requirements of natural law and ius gentium. Therefore the right economic policy is also the policy of justice and generosity. According to Heinrich Pesch the goal of the economy is providing for the needs of the people,90 which is in fact economic prosperity. Increasing economic prosperity however can not be maintained without the growing accumulation of wealth. The growth of the accumulated wealth in turn requires the further development of production. Meanwhile modern economic production can not be maintained and even less developed further without the division of labour. The division of labour in its turn can not be achieved without the distribution of income. Summarising these considerations we have found the following hierarchy of goals: Culture Order of Law Public Health Economic Prosperity Accumulation of Wealth Increase of Production Division of Labour Income Distribution. * * * Conclusion. The goals investigated in this study have an effect on the economy and mixing up their priorities might bring the economy into depression and even into crisis. These goals appear as norms to the mind in the order of the patterns called causae examplares in the scholastic philosophy. The same aims however constitute goals for the will. The income distribution will have a completely different pattern, if the system of law in force subjects the common good to the accumulation of wealth, or if the system of law secures the requirements of common good. The income distribution will be right and just, if the system of law in force incorporates the patterns prescribed by the natural law 90 Richard MULCAHY S.J., The Economics of Heinrich Pesch, New York 1952, page 123.
