The purpose of this paper is to examine the Kyoto Protocol in the light of three theoretical perspectives: international political economy (IPE), Nozick's entitlement theory of justice and Rawls's defence of justice as fairness. The IPE perspective highlights the difficulty of curtailing the...

This paper analyses the impact of a set of gender-role attitudes on the labour market situation of women with and without young children. These attitudes are used as a proxy for stated preferences. Our study covers 23 European countries, using an original up-to-date micro data-set, the European...

The paper argues that the standard definition of labour value assumes that capitalists abstain from consumption during the period of replacement. The non standard definition of labour value assumes that capitalists consume. Both the transformation problem and the problem of an invariable measure...

One of the most significant theoretical contributions to welfare analysis across a range of disciplines has been the development of the capabilities framework by Sen and others. Motivated by the claim that freedom should play a key role in social evaluation, the capabilities framework suggests...

Based on Africa evidence, the paper discusses the problem of achieving redistributive health care in conditions of low incomes and inequality.

This paper argues that caring for children has significant effects on economic processes, both through the time spent on it by parents and the contribution it makes to the reproduction of the economy. However, conventional economic models based on rational choice are inappropriate for analysing...