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

Laurent Dobuzinskis

The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 2010, vol. 17, issue 4, 837-864

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Non-welfarism; Fouillee; left-libertarianism; justice (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.1080/09672567.2010.482998

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