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Re-visiting Meltsner: Policy Advice Systems and the Multi-Dimensional Nature of Professional Policy Analysis
10.2139/ssrn.15462511-2
Non-welfarism Avant la Lettre: Alfred Fouillee's political economy of justice
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.Non-welfarism, Fouillee, left-libertarianism, justice,