L'économie du bien-être ou welfarisme, qui pose que les seules informations pertinentes pour juger les états sociaux sont les utilités individuelles (Sen, 1979), a très longtemps occupé une place hégémonique dans le champ de l'économie normative. Le modèle ELIE de redistribution des...

Welfare economics or welfarism, which admits that the sole relevant information to assess social states of affairs are individual utilities (Sen, 1979), has had during a very long time an hegemonic status in the field of normative economics. The ELIE model, for "Equal-Labour Income...

Faced with the well-known rightlibertarianism, a left-libertarianism has recently been developed. Advocates of the latter position share many theoretical choices with those of the former and in particular the central place given to full self-ownership. Analysis of this ownership individuals have...

It could seem tempting to present the publication of Rawls’ A theory of Justice [1971] as being at the origin, on the one hand, of the revival of normative economics and, on the other hand, of the birth of non welfarist approach in economics. However, the question of the initiator of these two...

Face aux libertariens dits « de droite », dont les positions développées par des auteurs tels que Rothbard (1973), D. Friedman (1973) et Nozick (1974), sont bien connues, un libertarisme « de gauche » s'est récemment développé. Les tenants de cette dernière position partagent avec les...