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L'absence d'envie dans une problématique «post-welfariste»

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 August 2016

Marc Fleurbaey
Marc Fleurbaey*
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INSEE, Paris
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Le critère d'absence d'envie dérivait traditionnellement sa pertinence de la difficulté d'égaliser le bien-être des individus dans un cadre purement ordinal. Les développements récents des théories de l'égalité (Rawls, Dworkin, Sen, etc.), conduisant à préconiser l'égalité des ressources ou des chances, et non du bien-être, mettent en lumière la véritable signification du critère d'absence d'envie et lui confèrent une valeur nouvelle. Cet article introduit à cette problématique «post-welfariste», et en propose une formalisation qui fait apparaître certains arbitrages entre le possible et le souhaitable.

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Traditionally, the no-envy criterion was justified by the aim of equalizing welfare in a purely ordinal framework. Recent theories of equality (Rawls, Dworkin, Sen, etc.), which reject equality of welfare and instead prefer equality of resources or opportunities, reveal the actual meaning of no-envy and give it a renewed relevance. This paper presents an introduction to this “post-welfarist” approach, et proposes a formalization which shows the existence of some tradeoffs between ethical goals and feasibility.

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Recherches Économiques de Louvain/ Louvain Economic Review , Volume 60 , Issue 1 , March 1994 , pp. 9 - 41
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Copyright © Université catholique de Louvain, Institut de recherches économiques et sociales 1994 

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Cet article a bénéficié des commentaires de S. Kolm, Ph. Mongin et A. Trannoy, et des interventions des participants au colloque sur l'absence d'envie (Louvain-la-neuve, 17 et 18 décembre 1992), en particulier Ph. Van Parijs. Je remercie aussi C. Arnsperger, ainsi que I. Iturbe et J. Nieto, pour des discussions trés utiles sur la non-domination. La responsabilité des erreurs et limites de cet article n'incombe qu'à son auteur.

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