[fre] Les économistes appliquent parfois la théorie des jeux non coopératifs à l'analyse des normes sociales. Les normes sont ainsi décrites comme des équilibres stratégiques dans des jeux non coopératifs. Cependant, la rationalité instrumentale qui est prêtée aux agents rencontre une...

Market-based health care reform modifies the doctor-patient interaction which is the heart of the health sector. Patient roles have become more active and well-informed, giving a new status of the patient as consumer. The ?voice? of the ?health democracy? had been transformed to the ?exit? of...

Through analysis of the French experience, this article explores the way economic policy has sought to encourage active, well-informed patients by giving them market power. The new status of the patient as consumer is based on two foundations: the endeavour to build a healthcare market and the...

In the field of healthcare, ethical considerations are omnipresent. The problem is that it is not clear how to introduce professional ethics within the frontiers demarcated by economic rationality. In mainstream economics, medical altruism is defined as the inclusion of the patient's welfare in...