La question de l'ideologie est peu debattue par les economistes. Peut-etre considerent-ils que Schumpeter l'a definitivement tranchee en affirmant qu'il suffit de mettre en exergue la "vision" d'un auteur pour pouvoir departager, dans sa pensee, ce qui est du a l'ideologie et ce qui revient a la...

We propose the concept of a universal social ordering, defined on the set of pairs of an allocation and a preference profile of any finite population. It is meant to unify evaluations and comparisons of social states with populations of possibly different sizes with various characteristics. The...

An early death is, undoubtedly, a serious disadvantage. However, the compensation of short-lived individuals has remained so far largely unexplored, probably because it appears infeasible. Indeed, short-lived agents can hardly be identified ex ante, and cannot be compensated ex post. We argue...

This paper analyzes social situations in the context of risk. A new argument is proposed in order to defend the ex-post approach against Diamond’s (1967) famous critique of Harsanyi’s (1955) utilitarian theorem. It leads to a characterization of the criterion consisting in computing the...

Ce travail propose une methode d'analyse des representations sociales inspiree des theories du choix social. Nous nous appuyons sur une enquete realisee aupres d'usagers de la Camargue (Claeys-Mekdade et al. 1998). Nous analysons une question d'evocation soumise a un echantillon de 218 individus.

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...

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 study the possibility of making social evaluations independently of individual preferences over non-consumed commodities. This is related to the well-known problem of performing international comparisons of standard of living across countries with different consumption goods. We prove...