Social debt and the quasi-contract: the solidarism of Léon Bourgeois as a form of liberal solidarity
通过社会债务和准契约两个原则，研究莱昂·布尔乔亚的“自由主义团结”，填补了经济学界对其思想研究的空白，为制度经济学未来研究提供新方向。
Abstract This paper studies the ‘liberal solidarity’ of Léon Bourgeois through two fundamental and interlinked ‘liberal solidarist principles’: (i) social debt and (ii) the quasi-contract. No real work has been proposed in economics in English in the context of Bourgeois’s work. It is this shortfall that we wish to fill in this article by restoring a little-known ancient thought and proposing an initial contribution to investigating future avenues of research in institutional economics. The solidarism of the Third French Republic allows us to rethink social democratic liberalism from an open and ongoing view of institutions as the driving force behind both individual rights and the collective order. Bourgeois solidarism is an interesting doctrine for rethinking from a moral perspective the role of human duty in economics and, more largely, in society.