Ce papier cherche à montrer que les problèmes éthiques posés par les pratiques monétaires et financières dans la mondialisation néolibérale ne sauraient être analysés à partir de la seule critique aristotélicienne d’une certaine chrématistique, l’accumulation d’argent comme...

A empresa e a gestão se tornaram elementos centrais da vida social na maioria dos países industrializados e em economias emergentes. Mas a visão do ser humano, geralmente colocada nesse universo gestor, é muitas vezes simplista como em aulas e práticas de gestão em vigor. Diante dessa...

This paper examines for the first time inequality of opportunity for income in Africa, by analyzing large-sample surveys, all providing information on individuals' parental background, in five comparable Sub-Saharan countries: Ivory Coast, Ghana, Guinea, Madagascar and Uganda. We compute...

This paper attempts to quantify the contribution of inequalities of opportunities and inequalities due to differences in effort to be in good health to overall health inequality in France. It examines three alternative specifications of legitimate and illegitimate inequalities drawing on Roemer,...

Welfare economics encompasses other public choice theories besides utilitarianism, like egalitarian social justice theory. Whether these economic frameworks provide practical tools that could be used in health technology assessment is an ongoing debate, and this study aim to contribute to answer...

This paper aims to quantify and compare inequalities of opportunity in health across European countries considering two alternative normative ways of treating the correlation between effort, as measured by lifestyles, and circumstances, as measured by parental and childhood characteristics,...

Whereas health equity issues are undoubtedly more relevant in developing countries, research on health inequalities and, more specifically, on inequality of opportunity in the health dimension, remains scarce in this context. This paper explores the degree of inequality of opportunity in health...