[fre] La version originale du théorème de Sen sur l'incompatibilité du principe de Pareto (ou d'unanimité) et d'une forme de libéralisme est présentée. Diverses remarques et plusieurs pistes de recherche sont proposées. [eng] Amartya Sen: rights and social choice. . I comment on Sen's...

Michael Dummett worked on the theoretical aspects of aggregation of individual preferences and on the strategic aspects of voting theory. He also extended Black’s analysis of single-peaked preferences for majority rule to the case of voting games (majority games), offering a greater...

Human development is about expanding the choices human beings have to lead lives that they value and is captured by its capability sets which consist of various functioning vectors. The standard of living is then reflected in capability sets. This paper proposes some particular ways of measuring...

This paper studies the problem of burden sharing in countries that were forced to introduce severe budget cuts after the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008 which had unleashed a financial crisis in many industrialised countries of the Western world. We do not ask how the burden was actually...