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Stressors and turning points in high school and dropout : a stress process, life course framework
(2015-12)
High school dropout is commonly seen as the result of a long-term process of failure and disengagement. As useful as it is, this view has obscured the heterogeneity of pathways leading to dropout. Research suggests, for ...
Top trading with fixed tie-breaking in markets with indivisible goods
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2012-03)
We study markets with indivisible goods where monetary compensations are not possible. Each individual is endowed with an object and a preference relation over all objects. When preferences are strict, Gale's top trading ...
Aristotle on Thumos and Phantasia
(Société Philosophique Ithaque, 2016)
What is Aristotle’s conception of thumos? This question can be broken down into two separate but related questions: (a) what is the object of desire for thumos, and (b) in which faculty of the soul is thumos grounded? The ...
Social Opportunities and Individual Responsibility: The Capability Approach and the Third Way
(Centre de recherche en éthique de l'Université de Montréal, 2004)
The fashionable widespreading of Sen’s ideas coincides with a new mood in the shaping of public policies in affluent societies. In Europe indeed, an “opportunity”-based approach to social security has been implemented ...
Incentives and Principles for Individuals in Rawls’s Theory of Justice
(Centre de recherche en éthique de l'Université de Montréal, 2005)
Philippe van Parijs (2003) has argued that an egalitarian ethos cannot be part of a post- Political Liberalism Rawlsian view of justice, because the demands of political justice are confined to principles for institutions ...
Response to Stéphane Luchini and Miriam Teschl
(Centre de recherche en éthique de l'Université de Montréal, 2005)
(Minimally) 'epsilon'-incentive compatible competitive equilibria in economies with indivisibilities
(Université de Montréal. Département de sciences économiques., 2012-04)
We consider competitive and budget-balanced allocation rules for problems where a number
of indivisible objects and a fixed amount of money is allocated among a group of agents. In 'small' economies, we identify under ...
On watching rather than reading Count Basil
(European Romantic Review, 2004)
The performance of « Count Basil » at this year's NASSR conference was a unique opportunity for those in attendance to share a theatrical experience with the actors in ways that are usually not available to readers and ...
The human right to water - normative foundations and ethical implications
(Centre de recherche en éthique de l'Université de Montréal, 2006)
La présente contribution examine les fondements normatifs ainsi que les implications éthiques du droit à l’eau, tel qu’il fut reconnu en 2002 par le comité onusien des droits économiques, sociaux et culturels. Il sera ...
Wittgenstein And Labyrinth Of ‘Actual Infinity’: The Critique Of Transfinite Set Theory
(Société Philosophique Ithaque, 2012)
In order to explain Wittgenstein’s account of the reality of completed infinity in mathematics, a brief overview of Cantor’s initial injection of the idea into set- theory, its trajectory (including the Diagonal Argument, ...