Bibliographical references for the courseEquality and Social Justice.

Nicolas Gravel

September 09 2015

1 Arrows theorem and the problem of socialchoice

1.1 Generalities

Arrow (1950), Arrow (1963), Bergson (1938), Caplin and Nalebuff (1991), Can-deal, Chichilnisky, and Indurin (1997), Kemp (1953), Sen (1986), Suzumuraand Xu (2001), Suzumura and Xu (2004).

1.2 Social choice on restricted domains

Donaldson and Roemer (1987), Gaertner (2001), Geslin, Salles, and Ziad (2003).

1.3 Money metric measurement of aggregate welfare andcost benefit analysis

Blackorby and Donaldson (1988), Blackorby and Donaldson (1990b). Boadway(1974), Chambers and Hayashi (2012), Diewert (1983), Ebert (1987), Slivinsky(1987).

1.4 Potential Pareto improvement and measurement ofPareto effi ciency.

Bossert (1996). Chipman (1987), Chipman and Moore (1971), Chipman andMoore (1973), Chipman and Moore (1976), Chipman and Moore (1978), Debreu(1951), Dierker and Leninghaus (1986), Gorman (1955), Gravel (2001), Hicks(1939), Kaldor (1939), Little (1957),Ruiz-Castillo (1987), Samuelson (1950),Scitovsky (1941), Suppes (1966).

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1.5 Textbook treatment of social choice, welfare econom-ics and theory of justice

Boadway and Bruce (1984), Feldman (1980), Fleurbaey (1996), Kolm (1996),Roemer (1996), Sen (1970a).

2 Philosophical discussions on social ethics

Arrow (1973), Elster (1979), Broome (1991) , Broome (1993) , Broome (1999),Broome (2004), Goodin (1986), Griffi n (1986), Hare (1981), Kolm (1969), Kolm(1982), Nagel (1979), Rawls (1971), Rawls (1982), Sen (1977b), Sen (1979a),Sen (1987), Sidgwick (1907).

3 Welfarist escape of Arrows theorem

3.1 Discussion on, and measurement of, welfare and hap-piness

Clark and Oswald (1994), Deaton (1980), Griffi n (1986), Summer (1996).

3.2 Welfarist interpretation of the problem of social choice

Arrow (1977), Bosmans and Ooghe (2013), Blackorby, Donaldson, and Weymark(1984), Blackorby and Donaldson (1984), Blackorby and Donaldson (1982),. DAspremont (1985), DAspremont and Gevers (1977), DAspremont andMongin (1998), Deschamps and Gevers (1978), Hammond (1976), Sen (1976),Sen (1977c), Sen (1977a), Strasnick (1975).

3.3 Variable population issues,

Blackorby, Bossert, and Donaldson (1995), Blackorby, Bossert, and Donald-son (1999),Blackorby, Bossert, and Donaldson (2001), Blackorby, Bossert, andDonaldson (2005), Hurka (1983), Gravel, Marchant, and Sen (2011), Narveson(1967), Parfit (1984).

3.4 Utilitarianism

Coulhon and Mongin (1989), Denicol (1999), Diamond (1967), Hare (1982),Harsanyi (1953), Harsanyi (1955), Harsanyi (1975), Harsanyi (1977), Harsanyi(1982), Mongin (1995), Sen (1979b).

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4 Non-welfarist escape out of Arrows theorem

4.1 Philosophical discussion of the notion of freedom andits importance

Ackerman (1980),Berlin (1969),Buchanan (1975), Buchanan (1986), Friedman(1962), Friedman and Friedman (1980), Hayek (1960), Hicks (1981), Knight(1947), Kolm (1997), Mill (1974), Sen (1985a), Sen (1985b), Sen (1988), Sen(1990), Sen (1991), Sen (1993), Sugden (1985), VanHees (2000), Parijs (1995).

4.2 Equality of opportunities and fairness

Arneson (1989), Arneson (1990), Bossert (1995), Bossert and Fleurbaey (1996),Bossert, Fleurbaey, and Vandegaer (1999), Cohen (1989), Cohen (1990), Dwor-kin (1981), Fleurbaey (1994), Fleurbaey (1995), Fleurbaey (1998), Fleurbaey(2008), Fleurbaey and Maniquet (1996), Fleurbaey and Maniquet (1999), Fleur-baey and Maniquet (2007), Fleurbaey and Maniquet (2008),Foley (1967), Her-rero (1996b), Herrero, Iturbe-Ormaetxe, and Nieto (1998), Iturbe-Ormaetxeand Nieto (1995), Kolm (1972), Kranich (1996), Kranich (1997), Ok (1997),Ok and Kranich (1998), Ooghe, Schokkaert, and VandeGaer (2007), Paznerand Schmeidler (1974), Pazner and Schmeidler (1978), Peragine (1999), Roemer(1993), Roemer (1998), Roemer, Aaberge, Colombino, Fritzell, Jenkins, Lefranc,Marx, Page, Pommert, Ruiz-Castrillo, Secondo, Tranaes, Trannoy, Wagner, andZubini (2003), Shorrocks (1978), VandeGaer (1993), Varian (1974).

4.3 Definition and measurement of freedom

Arrow (1995)Baharad and Nitzan (2000), Bossert, Pattanaik, and Xu (1994),Barber, Bossert, and Pattanaik (2004), Bossert (1997), Carter (1999), Duttaand Sen (1996), Erlander (2005), Foster (1998), Gravel (1994), Gravel (1998),Gravel (2006), Gravel (2009), Gravel, Laslier, and Trannoy (1998), Gravel andTarroux (2011), Herrero (1996a), Jones and Sugden (1982), Klemisch-Ahlert(1993), Kreps (1979), Nehring and Puppe (1999), Pattanaik and Xu (1990),Pattanaik and Xu (1998), Pattanaik and Xu (2000a), Pattanaik and Xu (2000b),Puppe (1995), Puppe (1996), Puppe (1998), Romero-Medina (2001), Sugden(1998), Suppes (1987), Suppes (1996), VanHees (1997), VanHees (2003), Xu(2004).

4.4 Modelization and definition of rights

Deb (1994), Deb, Pattanaik, and Razzolini (1997), Gaerner, Pattanaik, and Su-zumura (1992), Grdenfors (1981), Gibbard (1974), Peleg (1998), Sen (1970b).

4.5 Ranking opportunity sets with uncertain consequences

.Bossert (2000), Bervoets (2007).

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4.6 Measurement of diversity:

Berger and Parker (1970), Bervoets and Gravel (2007), Bossert, Pattanaik, andXu (2001), Bossert, Pattanaik, and Xu (2003), Good (1953), Gravel (2008),Magurran (1998), Nehring and Puppe (2002), Nehring and Puppe (2003), Nehringand Puppe (2008), Renyi (1961), Shannon (1948), Simpson (1949), VanHees(2004).

5 Measurement of one-dimensional inequality andpoverty

5.1 Theory and axiomatic principles

Aaberge (2000), Aaberge (2001), Abul-Naga and Yalcin (2008), Allison andFoster (2004), Amiel and Cowell (1992), Amiel, Creedy, and Hurn (1999), An-derson (1999), Atkinson (1970), Atkinson (1987), Berge (1959), Blackorby andDonaldson (1977), Dasgupta, Sen, and Starrett (1973), Fishburn and Vickson(1978), Foster and Ok (1999), Foster, Greer, and Thorbecke (1984), Fosterand Shorrocks (1987), Hardy, Littlewood, and Polya (1952), Jakobsson (1976),Lehmann (1955), Moyes (1987), Moyes (1988), Moyes (1994), Moyes (1989),Quirk and Saposnik (1962) Sen (1973), Sen (1992), Shannon (1948), Shorrocks(1980), Shorrocks (1982), Shorrocks (1983), Shorrocks (1984), Sidgwick (1907),Thon (1987).

5.2 Empirical implementation

Abul-Naga and Yalcin (2008), Apouey (2007), Bourguignon and Morrisson(2001), Deaton and Drze (2005), Banerjee and Piketty (2005), Gottschalk andSmeeding (1997), Himanshu and Sen (2005), Lipton and Ravallion (1998), May-shar and Yitzhaki (1995).

5.3 Statistical inference issues when comparing incomedistributions

Anderson (1999), Anderson (2008), Bishop and Formby (1999), Bishop, Formby,and Thistle (1989), Bishop, Formby, and Thistle (1992), Bishop, Chow, Formby,and Slotsve (1994), Davidson and Duclos (2000), Kaur, Prakasao, and Singh(1994).

5.4 Measurement of polarization

Duclos, Esteban, and Ray (2004), Esteban and Ray (1994).

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6 Measurement of multidimensional inequalityand poverty

6.1 Theory

Atkinson and Bourguignon (1982),Atkinson and Bourguignon (1987), Bazenand Moyes (2003), Bourguignon (1989), Bourguignon (1999). Bourguignon andChakravarty (2003), Ebert (1997b), Ebert (1997a), Epstein and Tanny (1980),Fleurbaey and Trannoy (2003), Gravel and Moyes (2011)?, Hadar and Russell(1974), Jenkins and Lambert (1993), Kolm (1976a), Kolm (1976b), Kolm (1977),Koshevoy (1995), Koshevoy (1998), Maasoumi (1986), Moyes (1999), Osterdal(2010), Trannoy (2004), Tsui (1995), Tsui (1999), Tsui (2002).

6.2 Equivalence scale methodogology

Blackorby and Donaldson (1990a), DeVos and Zaidi (1997), Fleurbaey, Hagner,and Trannoy (2003).

6.3 empirical implementations

Duclos, Sahn, and Younger (2006), Gravel and Mukhopadhyay (2010), Gravel,Moyes, and Tarroux (2009).

6.4 inequality in risk

Fleurbaey (2010), Gadjos and Maurin (2003), Gravel and Tarroux (2015), Ham-mond (1981).

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