rationality through which Hume's theory is apprehended, is highly disputable, from the point of view of both standard choice … theory and Hume's theory of passions. Nonetheless, Sugden's criterion of rationality might be restated in Humean terms as a …Facing R. Sugden's criticism of our interpretation, it is shown in this paper that rationality appears as a possible …

The purpose of this paper is to introduce explicitly pleasure and belief in what aims at being a Humean theory of …

For the reader who considers economic theory of choice as a special case of a more general theory of action, Hume … not seem to have given any evidence which would favour what we nowadays consider as the kind of rationality involved in … process, described by means of a decision algorithm which aims at representing Hume's theory of choice. …

The purpose of this paper is to introduce explicitly pleasure and belief in what aims at being a Humean theory of …

distribution of risks inside society, the Liberal system wins if the inequality of income is low, and the Beveridgean system wins … if the inequality of income is high. Using a utilitarian criterion, the Beveridgean system always dominates and the …