RT Article
T1 The Abidjan School and Louis-Joseph Lebret: marrying empirical research and development ethics
JF Journal of global ethics
VO 17
IS 2
SP 222
OP 242
A1 Ballet, Jérôme
A2 Dubois, Jean-Luc 1947-
A2 Kouadio, Alice
LA English
YR 2021
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1777984955
AB The Abidjan School is a school of thought that developed in the 1980s and 1990s in the Côte d'Ivoire inspired by the work of Louis-Joseph Lebret and Amartya Sen. It follows the empirical approach initiated by Lebret, aimed at better understanding people’s living conditions in order to ethically influence public policies. The Abidjan School has aimed to renew this tradition of empirical analyses of living conditions and better address the ethics of development. A key feature is the combination of economic and anthropological approaches. The School contributed to the redesign of household survey questionnaires, into formats now used in several African countries. It is also part of the renewal of analyses of the person, going beyond Lebret’s personalism.
K1 Living conditions
K1 Development Ethics
K1 Côte d’Ivoire
K1 Louis-Joseph Lebret
K1 Personalism
DO 10.1080/17449626.2021.1954050