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A good source on this is Frederic L. Pryor, "Corporatism as an Economic System," Journal
of Comparative Economics, 1988, vol. 12, pp. 317-344. He discusses the roots of the idea
of corporatism going back into the 19th century, when, indeed, the Roman Catholic Church
was the principal source of such ideas. In fact I think the 1991 encyclical was on the
centennial of an earlier one in which such ideas were first expressed officially by the
Church.
 
I think the originator within the Church of such ideas was the French Christian socialist,
Frederic Ozanam, who participated in the 1848 revolutionary upheavals in Paris. I know
that he was beatified by the Church in 1997, but I apologize that I do not know of any of
his specific writings in which his ideas are laid out. He is not cited in the Pryor
article, which also traces such discussions to some figures in Romania.
 
Barkley Rosser 
 
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