1st Edition
Freedom and Happiness in Economic Thought and Philosophy From Clash to Reconciliation
Introduction and Overview Ragip Ege and Herrade Igersheim Part 1: Freedom and Happiness in the Light of the Rawlsian Opposition 1. Rawls: The Construction of a Democratic Thought Rima Hawi 2. Hume’s Treatise of Human Nature and 'Liberalism of Freedom’ Daniel Diatkine 3. Smith and Condorcet on Instruction and the Rawlsian Opposition Jean-Daniel Boyer and Charlotte Le Chapelain 4. John Stuart Mill versus Jeremy Bentham: Between the Liberalism of Freedom and the Liberalism of Happiness Nathalie Sigot 5. Is Jevons a Liberal of Happiness? Pelin Sekerler Richiardi Part 2: Freedom and Happiness in Other Traditions of Liberalism: Towards a Reconciliation 6. German Historical School and the Question of Liberalism Karl-Heinz Schmidt 7. On the Liberalism of Walras Shirine Saberan 8. Balancing Freedom and Order: The Liberalism of Adolph Lowe Harald Hagemann 9. Some notes about Croce and Einaudi on liberismo and liberalismo Riccardo Soliani 10. Liberty and Independence: Rousseau’s Real Freedom Examined Jimena Hurtado 11. G.W.F. Hegel: Towards a Reconciliation Ragip Ege and Benoit Walraevens Part 3: Freedom, Happiness and Preferences: Applied Analysis 12. Interpersonal Comparisons With or Without Formal Welfarism Claude D’Aspremont 13. The Possibility of a Welfare Policy in a World of Emotion-Driven Individuals: A Humean Point of View André Lapidus 14. On Rights and Social Choice Maurice Salles 15. Do We Gain from Exchange At All? On Some Lessons to be Drawn from Rousseau Caroline Guibet Lafaye and Emmanuel Picavet 16. Can Metaranking Express the Misfortune of Consumption? A Discussion from the Reading of Things of G. Perec Claire Pignol 17. Reconstructing Preferences in a Voting Context: Some Clues from Experimental Data on Voting Rules Antoinette Baujard and Herrade Igersheim. Conclusion: "Metaranking as Reconciliation" Ragip Ege and Herrade Igersheim
Biography
Ragip Ege is Professor in Economics and member of the Bureau d’Economie Théorique et Appliquée (BETA) at the University of Strasbourg, France.
Herrade Igersheim is Research Fellow in Economics at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) and member of the Bureau d’Economie Théorique et Appliquée (BETA) at the University of Strasbourg, France.
