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Non-welfarism Avant la Lettre: Alfred Fouillee's political economy of justice

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  • Laurent Dobuzinskis

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This paper focuses on the implications for political economy of Alfred Fouillee's until now unjustly neglected concept of 'reparative justice'. I argue that it anticipates ideas that are associated today with non-welfarist approaches to economic justice, and with left-libertarianism in particular, without suffering from some of the weaknesses for which these approaches have been criticized. I show that Fouillee's defence of the primacy of liberty has an intuitive appeal that is arguably missing in other formulations of this idea, and I underline the reasons why his concept of 'reparative justice' is innocent of the charge of paternalism.

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  • Laurent Dobuzinskis, 2010. "Non-welfarism Avant la Lettre: Alfred Fouillee's political economy of justice," The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 17(4), pages 837-864.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:eujhet:v:17:y:2010:i:4:p:837-864
    DOI: 10.1080/09672567.2010.482998
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