The question of inheritance in mid-nineteenth century French liberal thought

Claire Silvant ()
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Claire Silvant: TRIANGLE - Triangle : action, discours, pensée politique et économique - ENS de Lyon - École normale supérieure de Lyon - Université de Lyon - UL2 - Université Lumière - Lyon 2 - IEP Lyon - Sciences Po Lyon - Institut d'études politiques de Lyon - Université de Lyon - UJM - Université Jean Monnet - Saint-Étienne - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

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Abstract: "In this paper, we explore a French debate in the nineteenth century Liberal School: the question of inheritance. We first present the opposition among liberal economists between the advocates of the liberty of bequest and the defenders of its limitations. We then try to show that these contrasted positions cannot be reduced to the confrontation between the doctrine of natural rights and the principle of social utility. Finally, we propose another explanation for the divergences of the Liberal School through different conceptions of the State."

Keywords: French liberal thought; inheritance; property rights; Jules Dupuit; history of public economics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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Published in European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 2015, 22 (1), pp.51-76. ⟨10.1080/09672567.2013.792363⟩

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DOI: 10.1080/09672567.2013.792363

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