Mardis intimes de la Chaire Hoover (Michs)

Les mardis intimes se déroulent le mardi de 12h45 à 13h55 précises.
A la Salle Vivès  (D-305, Place Montesiqueu 3, Louvain-la-Neuve).
Aucune inscription préalable n'est requise. Accès gratuit. Le responsable est Philippe Van Parijs

Conflict minerals: a conflict of interests and conflict of ethics. What should be the responsibility of producers?
Mardi 15/11/2016, Salle Vives, Dupriez D305, 3 Place Montesquieu, Louvain-la-Neuve
Magdalena Krukowska (Kozminski University, Poland, Bernheim Fellow)
Conflict minerals are minerals mined in conditions of armed conflict and human rights abuses, mostly in Democratic Republic of the Congo. The EU is a major market for many of the products that contain these minerals. In June 2016 the EU has agreed on a framework to stop the financing of armed groups through trade in conflict minerals. However, similar initiatives, mainly in USA, as well as certification and traceability initiatives have had some negative impact on local livelihoods in Congo. The aim of research is to define what should be the responsibilities and ethical obligations of the producing companies using minerals with the explanation of the reason and extension of the responsibility. I will seek answer to the questions: What should be the extension of responsibility of a company for the impact of the extraction of resources used for the production? Is the requirement of mandatory reporting ethically justified given the lack of sufficient control over supply chains and negative side-effects of previous initiatives? If (and what) legislative steps concerning the companies’ responsibility should the European Union take?

Working Time Regulation, Risky Lifetime and Fairness (article écrit avec Marie-Louise Leroux (UQAM)).
Mardi 22/11/2016, Salle Vives, Dupriez D305, 3 Place Montesquieu, Louvain-la-Neuve
Grégory Ponthière (Paris-Est, Paris School of Economics),
This paper studies the redistributive impact of working time regulations in a world of risky lifetime. We develop a model where individuals facing risk about the duration of life choose their working time profile subject to some working time regulations. It is shown that uniform working time regulations can, under some conditions, reduce inequalities in realized lifetime well-being between short-lived and long-lived persons. We also characterize the ex post egalitarian optimum, where the realized lifetime well-being of the worst off is maximized, and show that this social optimum involves, unlike the laissez-faire, an increasing age profile in terms of worked hours. Although age-dependent working time regulation alone does not allow to decentralize the ex post egalitarian optimum, it can nonetheless contribute to reduce inequalities in realized lifetime well-being. We also explore the robustness of our results to allowing for overtime work in exchange of an extra wage, and to the extension of our setting to a 3-period OLG economy.

Liberté et justice en santé
Lundi 28/11/2016, Salle Vives, Dupriez D305, 3 Place Montesquieu, LLN
François HUDON, Institut Ethique, Histoire, Humanités, Université de Genève
Lorsqu'il s'agit de développer une conception de la justice en santé, plusieurs métriques s'offrent à nous, notamment le bien-être, les ressources ou les capabilités. Je défends la thèse selon laquelle la liberté individuelle devrait être la métrique de la justice en santé. Je présente quelques raisons pour soutenir que cette métrique est adéquate au domaine de la santé et supérieure aux métriques alternatives.

Mardi 6/12/2016, Salle Vives, Dupriez D305, 3 Place Montesquieu, Louvain-la-Neuve
Clément FONTAN (CNRS, Sciences Po Grenoble), Titre à venir.