James Harrington on Equality, Agrarian Law, and Political Justice

Laurent Jaffro () and Cyril Selzner ()
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Laurent Jaffro: PHARE - Philosophie, Histoire et Analyse des Représentations Économiques - UP1 - Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
Cyril Selzner: PHARE - Philosophie, Histoire et Analyse des Représentations Économiques - UP1 - Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne

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Abstract: Even though the political theorist James Harrington (1611–1677) has sometimes been acclaimed as a forerunner of Marxist views—mainly on account of his seeming economic determinism—his work has been mostly overlooked by historians of economic thought. This paper argues that beyond his dubious claim to fame as a seventeenth-century Marx, other aspects of Harrington's thought deserve consideration, in particular his procedural approach to political justice and its consequences.

Keywords: James Harrington; equality; economic determinism; political justice; proceduralism; agrarian law; balance of power; procedural justice; republicanism; John G.A. Pocock; Crawford B. MacPherson (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016-05-26
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Published in 20th Annual Conference of the European Society for the History of Economic Thought, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne; European Society for the History of Economic Thought, May 2016, Paris, France

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