Chaire Hoover d'éthique économique et sociale

Created in 1991, the Hoover Chair of economic and social ethics aims to stimulate ethical reflection in the research and teaching of the Faculty of economic, social and political sciences of the Université Catholique de Louvain; and to contribute to a clear and well informed public debate about the ethical issues that arise in our society in the various areas covered by the Faculty's disciplines.

These objectives are pursued through the organisation of debates, seminars, conferences and a special programme in economic and social ethics; through hosting foreign scholars and through participating in countless initiatives organised by other institutions, both in Belgium and abroad. The Chair's activities are organized in English or in French. They are announced on its agenda and in its Hoover-Info newsletter, available on request.

These various activities are carried further and backed up by many publications, in the form of books, scholarly articles, interventions in the media or working papers. Many of these publications are downloadable from the Publications page and from the personal pages of the members of the Hoover Chair. Hundreds of texts, long or brief, technical or casual, are thus made available free of charge. We are hoping that we can thereby help feed honest, lucid and rigorous interdisciplinary thinking on the ethical dimension of many of the problems our societies are facing.

latest news


		> Bourse doctorale Bernheim Bourse doctorale de 4 ans à partir du 1er octobre 2010 dans le cadre du projet Social responsibility in Economic Life. [ > more]


		> Full-Spectrum Economics In this brand-new book based on Ken Wilber's "Integral" philosophy and on a careful critical discussion of mainstream economics, Christian Arnsperger argues that contemporary economics can ber made more relevant and emancipatory if it integrates internal and external perspectives on reality and therefore becomes less reductionistic. [ > more]


		> Critical Political Economy Complexity, Christian Arnsperger Nouveau livre de Christian Arnsperger: Critical Political Economy Complexity, rationality, and the logic of post-orthodox pluralism [ > more]


		> Rethinking Belgium's Institutions in the European context [ > more]


		> Jean-Michel Chaumont publie trois livres sur la traite des blanches Trois livres récents : "La mythe de la traite des blanches. Enquête sur la fabrication d'un fléau" et "Du sordide au mythe. L'affaire de la traite des blanches (Bruxelles, 1880)" et "La vie qu'on a. L'histoire d'une fille de l'Est" de Roxana Burlacu. [ > more]


		> Ethique de l'existence post-capitaliste Christian Arnsperger, Ethique de l'existence post-capitaliste, Pour un militantisme existentiel. Edition du Cerf (Paris) dans la collection « La nuit surveillée » [ > more]


		> Marxism Recycled New paperback edition of Philippe Van Parijs's collection of critical essays originally published by Cambridge University Press in 1993. [ > more]


		> Real Freedom for All Traduction japonaise de Philippe Van Parijs, Real Freedom for All. What (if anything) can justify capitalism?, Tokyo: Keiso Shobo, 2009, 494p. [ > more]