Dans l'ouvrage que Van Parijs a consacre en 1995 aux fondements philosophiques et economiques du projet d'allocation universelle, le chapitre IV est dedie au probleme du financement "soutenable" d'une telle mesure. Les "rentes associees aux emplois" y sont presentees comme un troisieme type de...

This paper shows that, in a partially welfarist framework that permits discounting, per-period social evaluations can be consistent with a timeless social ordering only if social principles lead to the repugnant conclusion. The same result applies if per-period social evaluations are replaced by...

Restricting attention to quasi-linear utility functions, we examine in the paper the distributive incidence of income taxes used to finance the production of a single public good.

In the frame of an exchange economy, we propose a criterion to compare a priori (i.e. before the market process begins) two individual endowments. This criterion is incompatible with the main norms of the distributive justice but permits to define of a new norm of equity. Unfortunately, this...

This paper provides a survey of normative approaches to inequality measurement, to be published as a chapter in a volume of income inequality. We present general methods for deriving ethical inequality indexes from social-evaluation orderings such as the Atkinson-Kolm-Sen and Kolm procedures.

En matiere de justice sociale, Hayek suscite un commentaire ambivalent: sous-produit d'une demarche evolutionnists, sa coherence et son realisme sont dificiles a prendre en defaut, consequences de fortes convictions liberales, la formulation adoptee est souvent provocante. A l'egard du "mirage...

This paper analyzes variable-population social-evaluation principles in a framework where outcomes are uncertain. In a static model, we provide characterizations of expected-utility versions of Critical-Level Generalized Utilitarian rules.

We derive the asymptotic sampling distribution of various estimators frequently used to order distributions in terms of poverty, welfare and inequality. This includes estimators of most of the poverty indices currently in use, as well as estimators of the curves used to infer stochastic...

Hicks pretendait dans le cadre de l'analyse cout-benefice que la superficie a gauche de la courbe de demande -calculee en supposant que tous les autres marches sont en equilibre- etait egale a la somme des surplus de Dupuit-Marshall sur tous les marches plus le surplus des producteurs. ce papier...

Dans un modele a deux periodes on peut considerer que l'aide a l'etranger peut-etre definie soit en terme d'un bien a consommer soit en terme de controle des naissances. La taille de la population en deuxieme periode est endogene. Nous examinons l'affectation optimale de cette ressource rare en...