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Workshop Social Choice and Public Economics
Princeton University, May 10-11, 2013
Robertson Hall, Room 020 – Open to all faculty and students
Organization: Marc Fleurbaey, Stéphane Zuber, Debbie Nexon
Program
May 10:
9:15am
Welcome and Opening Remarks
9:30-10:30am
Stéphane Zuber “Risk and equity in economic environments” (with Marc
Fleurbaey)
10:45-11:45am
Geoffroy de Clippel “Egalitarianism under incomplete information”
12:00-1:00pm
Lunch
1:00-2:00pm
William Thomson “On the extension of the uniform rule to more than one
commodity: existence and maximality results”
2:15-3:15pm
Ben Lockwood "Taxation and the Allocation of Talent" (joint with Charlie
Nathanson and Glen Weyl)
4:00-5:00pm
Stephanie Stantcheva “Generalized social marginal welfare weights for optimal
tax theory” (with E. Saez)
5:15-6:15pm
John Roemer “Kantian optimization: An approach to cooperative behavior”
May 11:
9:00-10:00am
Ram Sewak Dubey “On Monotone Social Welfare Orders satisfying the Strong
Equity Axiom: Construction and Representation” (with Tapan Mitra)
10:15-11:15am
Yves Sprumont “Every Choice Function is Backwards-Induction Rationalizable”
(with Walter Bossert)
11:30-12:30pm
James Schummer “Incentives in Landing Slot Problems” (with Azar Abizada)
12:30-1:30pm
Lunch
1:30-2:30pm
Marc Fleurbaey “Discounting, Risk and Inequality: A General Approach” (with
Stéphane Zuber)
2:30pm
End of workshop