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« L'économie des discriminations » peut-elle se passer d'une « philosophie économique des discriminations ? »

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  • Cléo Chassonnery-Zaïgouche

    (Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne)

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Since the 1950's, Nobel Prize economists such as Akerlof, Arrow, Becker, Heckman, Phelps and Stiglitz have analyzed discrimination in an economic framework, essentially in "positive" perspective. The two seminal models – Becker's model based on a "taste for discrimination" and Arrow and Phelps' theories of "statistical discrimination" – give two different answers to the implicit question of efficiency. Discrimination is inefficient – by assumption – in Becker's work because it's a « non-monetary cost », whereas discrimination could be efficient – in some cases – in statistical discrimination models. When discrimination is efficient, the normative basis disappears and no political recommendations could be made. The eficiency criterion is not sufficient to analyze discrimination both in a « positive » and in a « normative » perspective. The paper discusses two principles to renew this analysis: 1) individuals make choice using normative criteria; 2) the non-discrimination principle is lexically prior to an efficiency criterion

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  • Cléo Chassonnery-Zaïgouche, 2012. "« L'économie des discriminations » peut-elle se passer d'une « philosophie économique des discriminations ? »," Documents de travail du Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne 12068, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris 1), Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne.
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    • A13 - General Economics and Teaching - - General Economics - - - Relation of Economics to Social Values
    • J7 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor Discrimination
    • B40 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - Economic Methodology - - - General
    • B41 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - Economic Methodology - - - Economic Methodology

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