Solidarity: From Dogma to Economic System: Juan Donoso Cortes and Heinrich Pesch, S.J.

Abstract

The title indicates an evolution which in the prevailing idiom of economics would not be possible. One does not develop an economic system from a dogma, depending to some extent on how one chooses to define dogma. What is more, anyone who is familiar with Juan Donoso Cortes (1809–1853), the man who first designated solidarity as a dogma, knows that he was a political philosopher. And anyone who is familiar with Heinrich Pesch, the man who first outlined a system of economics which he called Solidarism, knows that he was a Jesuit priest, Now while Jesuits and political philosophers, especially Spanish Roman Catholic ones, probably have something to say to each other, what would the likes of them have to do with a value‐neutral science?

Citation

Ederer, R.J. (1981), "Solidarity: From Dogma to Economic System: Juan Donoso Cortes and Heinrich Pesch, S.J.", International Journal of Social Economics, Vol. 8 No. 4, pp. 40-49. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb013890