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CHAIRE HOOVER Louvain-La-Neuve
31 octobre 2017
MICH: Is the left-right divide obsolete?
Pierre-Etienne Vandamme
The recent elections of Donald Trump and Emmanuel Macron seem to question the contemporary relevance of the left-right divide as an analytical grid. I would like to 1) insist on the analytical importance of this divide and 2) put forward three other dividing lines that...
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MICH: Intergenerational Legitimacy
Daniel Callies (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt)
Prior to 1971, debates about justice focused almost exclusively on competing claims within individual generations. Since the publication of A Theory of Justice, there has been prolific discussion surrounding the notion of intergenerational justice,...
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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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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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