Two days ago, I contrasted the views of Pope Francis and Walter Williams about capitalism and morality.
I explained that Walter had the upper hand because free markets are a positive-sum game based on voluntary exchange while redistribution (at best) is a zero-sum game based on coercion.
That’s the theoretical argument. Now let’s look at the empirical data, specifically focusing on which approach is best for the less fortunate.
Thomas Sowell, the great economist at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, is not impressed by the Pope’s analysis. Here some of what Prof. Sowell wrote for Investor’s Business Daily.
Pope Francis has created political controversy…by blaming capitalism for many of the problems of the poor. …putting aside religious or philosophical questions, we have more than two centuries of historical evidence… Any serious look at the history of human beings over the millennia shows that the species began in…
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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