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[fre] La notion d'équité, telle qu'elle est employée dans le débat public, témoigne de la nécessité d'un retour aux textes de Rawls. Une con- frontation aux " capacités " de Sen permet d'exposer les soubassements d'un débat sur l'équité qui ne peut négliger l'égalité, au nom de la...
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Until the introduction of the RSA (Revenu de solidarité active - i.e. Active Solidarity Income) on 1st June 2009 in metropolitan France and 1st January 2011 in overseas territories, poor single-parent families were entitled either to the RMI (Revenu minimum d?insertion ? i.e. Minimum...
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The aim of this paper is twofold: first, we discuss the main conceptual and methodological issues related to the operationalization of Amartya Sen's capability approach. Second, we review quantitative applications of the capability approach in different domains to examine how methodological and...
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John Rawls's remarks on race are sparse in his writings. However, three key moments in his conceptual apparatus wherein racial issues appear explicitly can be be highlighted: (1) the status of race as a feature of the veil of ignorance; (2) racial minorities, the least advantaged, and the...
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This paper has a twofold aim. First, we will analyze the system of family benefits in relation with the income tax system in France through the adoption of a historical and gender perspective. While typologies of welfare states frequently neglect taxation, in our view, one must take family...
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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...
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L'objectif de ce texte est d'étudier, de 1975 à 2002, l'évolution des critères d'équité horizontale et verticale du système de redistribution familialisé en France. L'analyse concerne les prestations monétaires directes et l'impôt sur le revenu. La méthode retenue est celle des...
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L'objectif de ce texte est, d'une part, de proposer une façon de lever la dualité ou contradiction mise en évidence par de nombreux commentateurs dans la théorie hayékienne de l'évolution et, d'autre part, de souligner les difficultés rencontrées par Hayek dans sa tentative...
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The aim of this paper is to analyse how the criteria of horizontal and vertical equity of the French system of family transfers evolved from 1975 till 2002. It focuses primarily on non-contributory benefits and on income taxation and uses family type's methods. Two main findings can be outlined...
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The aim of this text is first to propose a way to resolve the duality or the contradiction in Hayek’s evolutionary theory as outlined by many commentators. Secondly we aim to underline the major problems that Hayek comes up against in his attempt to develop an endogeneous specification of the...
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