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Martin van der Linden (Utah State University) We study fairness in economies where humans consume one private good and one public good, the latter representing the welfare of other species. We show that it is impossible for a social planner to be egalitarian with respect to humans and be...

Un philosophe peut-il prendre sa retraite? En 2016, le Professeur Philippe Van Parijs a accédé à l'éméritat. Dans le fil du colloque organisé en octobre 2016 à l'occasion de ce départ et du 25e anniversaire de la Chaire Hoover, nous organisons le 15 décembre 2017 un après-midi d'hommage...

Anna Menagarishvili (Tbilisi State University, Erasmus fellow) According to numerous scientific studies, despite the political context across the world, young people’s political turn out has been significantly decreasing during the past decades, creating inequalities due to which, there has...

Thierry N’gosso (Saint-Gallen) Shue claims that there is a clear distinction between subsistence and luxury emissions. In consequence, rich countries should bear the essential part of the burdens costs and should assist poor countries that should bear little if not none. I take issue with both...