Recent papers

Le livre capital du XXIè siècle

Réduire les inégalités

Altruism in Economic Thought

Veritas in Caritate (The public good of fighting poverty and the paradoxes of solidarity)

Happiness-Freedom (Who suffers? From dukkha to samadhi), (Turin University Conference for the U.N. Happiness World Day, March, 20, 2013)

Quelles valeurs pour refonder l’économie? (Conférence invitée, Dialogue interreligieux, Paris, Décembre 2013)

Egalité, altruisme et réciprocité : l’éthique économique en devenir, trois ouvrages cruciaux

Remarques sur le bouddhisme et l’histoire de l’individu (Conférence du Cercle Ernest Renan, 16 janvier 2014)

Le théorème d’Haavelmo: la relance sans déficit

Why and which equality?

Inequality, new directions: full normative foundations and their consequences

History of public economics. The historical French school

Equal-equivalents for inequality, welfare and liberty: concepts and policy

Equality

On real economic freedom

Social ethics and rationality, new directions for the optimum production of justice: Meaningful welfare, equal liberties, social solidarity. POWER POINT PRESENTATION

Social ethics and rationality, new directions for the optimum production of justice: Meaningful welfare, equal liberties, social solidarity. TEXT

The rational recursive original position. A fully determined impartial endogenous social welfare function

A response to Erik Schokkaert on Macrojustice.

Paradoxes of the war on poverty. Warm-glows and efficiency

The theory of rules and the moral provision of public goods

The rational, recursive original position

Economic macrojustice: Fair optimum income distribution, taxation and transfers (second text)

Equal liberties and the resulting optimum income distribution and taxation

The war on poverty: Paradoxes and possibilities

Are tastes a possible reference for choosing the income tax?

The paradoxes of the war on poverty

Note on ELIE with non-human natural resources

Economic Justice

A paradigm shift? The elementary philosophy of optimum income distribution and taxation

Ethical economic inequalities

Economic inequality (shorter version)

The liberal public economics of optimum income taxation and distribution

Economic macrojustice: Fair optimum income distribution, taxation and transfers

La raison de la défiscalisation du travail supplémentaire

Distribution, impôts et transferts optimaux / Optimum distribution, taxes and transfers

Libérer le travail marginal

Liberty-based optimum distribution and taxation

Macrojustice: distribution, transferts et impôts optimaux

Macrojustice from equal liberty. The normative economics of optimum income taxation and distribution

Reciprocity: Its  scope, rationales, and consequences

Introduction to the economics of altruism, giving and reciprocity

Macrojustice: distributive and fiscal Policy desired by a free and efficient society / Macrojustice: la politique distributive et fiscale voulue par une société libre, efficace, et solidaire

Economic inequality

On real economic freedom

Les principes de l’impôt juste et efficace

Freedom, justice and efficiency: Optimum distribution, taxation and transfers / Liberté, justice et efficacité: distribution, impôts et transferts optimaux

Freedom justice

To each according to her work? Just entitlement from action: desert, merit, responsibility, and equal opportunities

Vox populi, vox dei: Endogenous social choice and the rational original position

The human person in normative economics

Réponse / Reply

The economics of social sentiments: The case of envy

Quelques souvenirs de John Rawls

La contradiction économique européenne et sa solution

Le plan Villepin pour l’emploi: pathétique