Université de Fribourg

Competing Institutional Logics and Paradoxical Universalism : School-to-Work Transitions of Disabled Youth in Switzerland and the United States

Tschanz, Christoph ; Powell, Justin J. W.

In: Social inclusion, 2020, vol. 8, no. 1, p. 155-167

Disablement is a complex social phenomenon in contemporary societies, reflected in disability policies oriented towards contrasting paradigms. Fraught with ambivalence, disability raises dilemmas of classification and targeted supports. Paradoxical universalism emphasizes that to achieve universality requires recognizing individual dis/abilities and particular contextual conditions and barriers...

Università della Svizzera italiana

Costly institutions as substitutes : novelty and limits of the Coasian approach

Pagano, Ugo ; Vatiero, Massimiliano

One of the main contributions of Ronald H. Coase was to demonstrate how mainstream economics was based on a contradictory amalgam of costly physical inputs and free institutional resources, and to gave origin the economics of institutions: each institution is a mode of allocation and organization of economic resources that is to be investigated. In particular, none of the institutions...