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Laissez-faire versus Pareto∗

Consider two principles for social evaluation. The first, ‘laissez-faire’, says that mean-preserving redistribution away from laissez-faire incomes should be regarded as a social worsening. This principle captures a key aspect of liberal political philosophy. The second, weak Pareto, states that an increase in each individual’s disposable income should be regarded as a social improvement. We sh...

Faire bonne figure avec Mlpost

This article introduces MLPOST, an OCaml library for scientific drawing. It is based on METAPOST, which allows inclusion of LTEX fragments. OCaml is an appealing alternative to LTEX macro languages, dedicated languages and even to graphic tools. In particular, MLPOST users benefit from OCaml’s expressiveness and static typing. Finally, MLPOST features a declarative style, which differs from the...

On the robustness of laissez-faire

This paper considers a model economy in which agents are privately informed about their type: their endowments of various goods and their preferences over these goods. While preference orderings over observable choices are allowed to be correlated with an agent’s private type, we assume that the planner/government is both uncertain about the nature of this joint distribution and unable to choos...

Cubitus varus: l'ostéotomie de soustraction externe a-t-elle toujours sa place? Etude rétrospective à propos de 25 cas

Cubitus varus or malunion is most often secondary to displaced supracondylar fractures of the lower end of the humerus in children. Various surgical techniques have been proposed with different success rates but also with different reported complication rates. Our retrospective study of 25 cases diagnosed at the University Hospital of Rabat evaluated the results of the technique of external sub...