Mark T. Mitchell

Mark T. Mitchell is Dean of Academic Affairs at Patrick Henry College and the author of several books including Plutocratic Socialism: The Future of Private Property and the Fate of the Middle Class; Power and Purity: The Unholy Marriage that Spawned America’s Social Justice Warriors; and The Limits of Liberalism: Tradition, Individualism, and the Crisis of Freedom. He is the co-founder of Front Porch Republic.

November 27, 2022
Business & Economics

November 27, 2022
Capitalism, Economics, Family, Farming, Long Reads

Intergenerational Wealth: A Vision of Property and Stewardship

By Mark T. Mitchell

An ethic of stewardship induces a person to acquire and care for property, and the ownership of property helps to stimulate an ethic of stewardship. When both are present and healthy, the formation of intergenerational wealth—in the form of intergenerational property—will naturally emerge.

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