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Clément Juglar and Algeria: three pillars of modern anti-colonial criticism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 July 2017

ANTOINE PARENT  and
ROBERT BUTLER
ANTOINE PARENT*
Affiliation:
Sciences Po Lyon, Lyon, France; Institut des Sciences de l'Homme, University of Lyon, France Cliometric and Complexity (CAC), LAET Institut Rhônalpin des Systèmes Complexes, Lyon, France
ROBERT BUTLER*
Affiliation:
Department of Economics, Aras na Laoi, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland
*
*Email: [email protected]
**Email: [email protected]
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Abstract

The objective of this paper is to recall the forgotten opposition of Clément Juglar to the colonization of Algeria, the originality of this position, and his contributions to the genesis of analysing colonial institutions. Juglar was not a theoretician of colonialism, but a liberal economist who rejected the process of colonization on economic grounds. This paper provides evidence that conventional wisdom on French colonialism is indebted to his work. The issues of capital returns in the colonies, French colonialism as mercantilism and protectionism, and the role of colonial institutions in economic development were all addressed by Juglar. He identified property rights and colonial institutions as central issues in his explanation of the predictable failure of colonialism, and in doing so he can be regarded as a forerunner of neo-institutionalist analysis of colonialism.

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Journal of Institutional Economics , Volume 14 , Special Issue 2: Special Issue on Colonial Institutions and African Development , April 2018 , pp. 393 - 408
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Copyright © Millennium Economics Ltd 2017 

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