We show, in contrast with Stiglitz, that an inegalitarian long run equi- librium can emerge in a Solow growth model framework, with linear consumption function. We then interpret this result in line with marxian economics. We extend the results by incorporating some features of the...

The aim of this paper is to show that inequalities of wealth can be necessary conditions to explain the apparition and rise of a capitalistic system. We try to highlight Marx's insights on primitive accumulation. Our dynamic framework is consistent with Roemer's idea of endogenous class...

The Health, Inequalities and Social Breakdown (SIRS) survey carried out in Antananarivo in April 2003 on a representative sample of 2,807 people, is part of an international research programme designed to compare the relationships between health, inequalities and social breakdowns in different...

We build and implement a normative procedure to allocate international aid based on equality of opportunity concerning the risk of poverty. This is an alternative to Collier and Dollar’s proposal (2001) which stresses the impact of aid on worldwide poverty reduction. The big problem with their...

We examine the long-term effects on individual economic outcomes of a set of earthquakes – numerous, large, but mostly not extreme – that occurred in rural Indonesia since 1985. Using longitudinal individual-level data from large-scale household surveys, together with precise measures of...

This paper studies the impact of earthquakes on farm business assets in rural Indonesia. Using a panel fixed effects model, we evaluate if the negative consequences of earthquakes extend beyond the immediate event into the medium and long-term. Our results suggest that rural households were able...

Economic growth is seen here as the outcome of an entrepreneur-driven process of evolution in the context of an economy of competitive markets. In the course of this process the entrepreneurs implement capital and labour factors, one part of them committed to substitution and the other to...

For Kaldor (1972), economic growth is the resultant of a chain-reaction between increases in supply and increases in demand. In order to show the interest of this view, I represent this growth process by an entrepreneurial growth model based on the principle of effective demand. The aggregate...

Dans son ouvrage magistral Théorie des Organisations, J. Rojot avance deux noms d'auteurs qui ouvrent chacun une piste d'avancée vers ce qu'il appelle « l'individualisme méthodologique complexe » : J.P. Dupuy et I. Giddens . Est-ce à dire que l'individualisme méthodologique complexe est...