The paper deals with evaluating the adequacy of the assumption that in economic transactions people are self-interested insofar as they are motivated solely by the concern of maximizing their utility, and in particular with assessing how this assumption affects within-group behaviour.

Purpose – The paper aims to examine the relationship between creating capabilities and political liberalism. It argues that the reality of climate change calls for the capabilities approach to be more rooted in a relational anthropology which the Aristotelian ethical tradition is more akin to....

The paper studies the role of subsitence thresholds in the emergence of poverty traps, in a two-country overlapping generations model. If consumption is lower than the subsitence level, people may die after the first period of their life. Given the presence of a survival threshold, and given a...

En nous basant principalement sur une analyse de l'Ethique à Nicomaque, nous tentons d'analyser les abstractions opérées par la théorie économique contemporaine à la lumière des trois caractéristiques fondamentales de l'éthique aristotélicienne : l'internalisme, le pluralisme et la...

Summary This paper re-assesses the treatment of religion in development studies 30 years after the publication of a special issue of World Development on "Religion and Development". Given the changes in the social and political context, consideration of the subject of religion can no longer be...

Purpose – The paper aims to examine the relationship between creating capabilities and political liberalism. It argues that the reality of climate change calls for the capabilities approach to be more rooted in a relational anthropology which the Aristotelian ethical tradition is more akin to....

This article seeks to contribute to an understanding of the dynamics of religion in social mobilization. It argues that existing approaches to the study of the role of religion in social mobilization have been insufficiently nuanced and have failed to probe the multiple and often contradictory...