The fields of health equity and human rights have different languages, perspectives, and tools for action, yet they share several foundational concepts. This paper explores connections between human rights and health equity, focusing particularly on the implications of current knowledge of how social conditions may influence health and health inequalities, the metric by which health equity is a...

In this note we give an elementary proof of the Fritz-John and Karush–Kuhn–Tucker conditions for nonlinear finite dimensional programming problems with equality and/or inequality constraints. The proof avoids the implicit function theorem usually applied when dealing with equality constraints and uses a generalization of Farkas lemma and the Bolzano-Weierstrass property for compact sets. 2006 P...

The Austrian School of Economics has always taken a deep interest in methodological issues, and has used its methodological reflections to build substantive theories towards explaining the role of knowledge in economic life. This ‘double’ interest for knowledge within the Austrian School can be traced back at least to Alfred Schutz’s 1932 thesis The Phenomenology of the Social World, which was ...