L’objectif de ce texte est de questionner les fondements normatifs des politiques d’activation, dans leur version Making Work Pay, afin de souligner les «préférences révélées » des décideurs politiques. Pour cela, nous montrons comment les théories de la justice de Rawls, Dworkin et...

After sixty years of predominance in the western countries, both the objective of economic growth and its core measure, the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), have been questioned. It no longer seems consistent to maintain growth as a societal goal and to keep GDP as the major reference for...

Dans une approche « welfariste » conforme à la tradition utilitariste de l'économie normative, le critère de la non-envie permet de dépasser la controverse de fond entre « ancienne » et « nouvelle » économie du bien- être, à partir de la notion de comparaisons « intrapersonnelles...

In this paper, we challenge the usual argument which says that competition is a fair mechanism because it ranks individuals according to their relative preferences between effort and leisure. This argument, we claim, is very insuficient as a justification of fairness in competiton, and we show...

This paper investigates the standard economic paradigm as to the possibility for the agents to become revolutionaries, i.e., to develop the desire and effective action to overturn the prevailing social order. We take our cue from Amartya Sen’s remark that the Second Fundamental Theorem of...