Archives for HOOVER
CHAIRE HOOVER Louvain-La-Neuve
17 octobre 2017
MICH: Does the equalization of opportunities require...
Philippe Van Parijs (UCL)
"Social mobility is much lower than generally asserted. It hardly varies across countries and across time. There is little that can be done about it. And anyway it does not matter that much." These is a somewhat simplified summary of the theses defended by economist...
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10 octobre 2017
MICH: Poverty and the respect for preferences
François Maniquet (UCL, CORE)
Normative economics is grounded on the Pareto principle. Its classical justification is the respect for agents’ preferences, which follows from the view that humans are autonomous moral agents. However, it seems that when they deal with poverty and the design of...
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MICH: Should liberalism be deepened by religion?
Emir Kaya (Social Sciences University of Ankara)
Turkey has been undergoing a historical transformation under the Justice and Development Party rule since 2002. The founding ideas and institutions of the modern Turkish Republic are now in pieces, and no fair, inclusive and reliable...
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MICH: Environmental Degradation and the Right to Equality
Refia Kadayifci (UCL, Chaire Hoover), « Environmental Degradation and the Right to Equality”
Recent environmental litigation, especially climate cases, the environmental justice literature, and developments both in case law and in the theory of anti-discrimination law inspire us in framing...
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23 septembre 2017
Allocation universelle - Basisinkomen. Défendons-nous...
Le débat sur l'allocation universelle prend jour après jour de plus en plus d'ampleur, ailleurs comme chez nous.
Mais ce projet ne pourra se concrétiser en Belgique que s'il est porté par des hommes et femmes politiques de l'ensemble du pays.
C'est pourquoi nous organisons le 23...
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