Musgrave’s so-called merit goods, introduced in 1957, intend to deal with situations where the social weight or concern of a good differs from the information given by individual preferences. Merit goods are often referred to as a case for government intervention in education, health care or...

L’objet de ce travail est d’éclairer les enjeux de la prise en charge à domicile à partir du point de vue des usagers. Il s’agit plus précisément d’étudier les préférences que les individus accordent aux différentes caractéristiques décrivant leur mode de prise en charge afin...

This paper proposes and compares different characterization of what an economic expert is — his/her role, functions and legitimacy — according to different conceptions of economics: welfarism, libertarian paternalism and positive political economy. We show that both welfarism and libertarian...

Welfarist approach is generally the preferred response to the problem of social justice. However the idea of individual responsability cannot be introduced in this framework. In contrast, for post-welfarist approach (initiated by John Rawls) this idea play a leadind role. In particular, the...