precisely a “belief”, transferred to the direct passions of desire or volition that come immediately before action. As a result … pleasure is transformed by belief into a non-empty class of relations of desire, among which at least one is a preorder. …

's distinction between three alternative valuations of an individual position: desire (which leads to action), interest, and … happiness. The difficulty comes from the fact that desire does not depend on pleasure as an impression, but on the force of an …

precisely a “belief”, transferred to the direct passions of desire or volition which come immediately before action. As a result … pleasure is transformed by belief into a relation of desire, which belongs to a non-empty class of relations, among which at …

analysis links highly detailed individual level fertility life histories to wealth at death data for four rural villages in …

There is a capital taxation puzzle in most developed countries. Since the 1960s, revenues from wealth transfer taxation … cases; by contrast, lifetime wealth or capital taxation generates much higher revenues and shows no decreasing trend. The … full tax puzzle is certainly not easy to explain. Many usual explanations of the aversion to wealth transfer taxation also …

1950, and back up to about 15% by 2010. A simple theoretical model of wealth accumulation, growth and inheritance can fully … wealth accumulation well above 100%. Our findings illustrate the fact that when the growth rate g is small, and when the rate … of return to private wealth r is permanently and substantially larger than the growth rate (say, r=4%-5% vs. g=1 …

in explaining households' wealth behaviors, and to construct more accurate tests of the theories of savings and portfolio … composition of wealth are similar across surveys, in line with theoretical predictions, and more significant than those obtained …

.25, so that the two preferences are nonetheless far from identical. In addition, the elasticity of children's wealth with … respect to that of their parents is around 0.22. This correlation is corrected for the influence of age on wealth, and … intergenerational transmission of wealth inequalities, but is far from being the most important factor. …