Stephen Leacock

The Unsolved Riddle Of Social Justice Stephen Leacock

The publication in 1919 of The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice suggested that an interventionist state was needed to prevent injustice and distribute economic goods (without slipping into the communist trap) and the market could contribute much economic good but could also lead to much injustice. The task: how to combine the best of the state and market---such was and is the unsolved riddle of social justice---lesser thinkers either idealize the state or market as the answer to social and economic problems---such is not the unique High Tory Canadian way nor the path of Stephen Leacock.