SPECIAL ISSUE OF JOURNAL OF GLOBAL ETHICS, Volume 17, Issue 2 (2021)
pages 115-278

Editors: Des Gasper, Lori Keleher

The work of the French socio-economist and philosopher L.-J. Lebret and his associates is too little known in English-language circles. A new special issue of the Journal of Global Ethics tries to fill at least part of this gap. Authors from Brazil, Costa Rica, Cote D’Ivoire, France, Mexico, Netherlands, Nigeria, Portugal, and the USA describe and assess various aspects of the extensive output of Lebret and his school and its lines of influence both inside and far beyond Catholic circles. The special issue is co-edited by Des Gasper, (International Institute of Social Studies (The Hague), Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands), and Lori Keleher (New Mexico State University, USA).

The journal issue can be accessed via https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjge20/17/2?nav=tocList, which gives the list of contents, links to all the articles, and information about the journal and how to buy articles. However, the list of contents is open-access, as are three articles, including the opening overview paper. The nine articles are as follows:

Investigating L-J. Lebret as a pioneer of human development thinking and global development ethics: An introduction.  Des Gasper and Lori Keleher.   Free access: https://doi.org/10.1080/17449626.2021.1973539     Pages 115-126

Lebret and the birth of development ethics within Catholic Social Teaching.  Vitalis Anaehobi. Pages 127-145

L-J. Lebret: a human development ethics grounded in empirical social research and a global perspective. Des Gasper.  Open access: https://doi.org/10.1080/17449626.2021.1954051   Pages 146-166

Lebret’s Christian-inspired societal project and integral human development.  Nuno Martins and Vitor Teixeira.    Pages 167-184

The ‘common good’ spirituality of Louis-Joseph Lebret and his influence in the Constitution and development thinking in Brazil.  Alex Villas Boas and André Folloni.        Pages 185-203

Lebret’s method and epistemological perspective for ‘human economy’ and ‘harmonized human development’. Jorge Arturo Chaves-Ortiz, Jonathan Cordero-Bonilla, María Leonela Artavia-Jimenez, and Marcelo Valverde-Morales .  Pages 204-221

The Abidjan School and Louis-Joseph Lebret: Marrying empirical research and development ethics. Jérôme Ballet, Jean-Luc Dubois and Alice Kouadio.  Pages 222-242

 Treading between joy and grief: Gaudium et Spes, Louis-Joseph Lebret, and the challenge of modernity. Matthew R.G. Regan.  Pages 243-259

 Comparing two pioneers of development ethics: Louis-Joseph Lebret and Denis Goulet.Montserrat Culebro Juárez and Des Gasper.  Open access: https://doi.org/10.1080/17449626.2021.1954053   Pages 260-278