Syllabus/achievement requirements

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Books

Fleurbaey, M. Fairness, Responsibility, and Welfare, 2008. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199215911. Chapters 0-5 and 9-10

Roemer, J. Theories of Distributive Justice, 1996. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ISBN: 9780674879201 . Chapter 1, 4-5, and 7.

Articles

@ Aaberge, R. Characterization of Lorenz Curves and Income Distributions, 2000. Social Choice and Welfare, 17(4): pp. 639-653.

@ Aaberge, R. Axiomatic Characterization of the Gini Coefficient and Lorenz Curve Orderings, 2001. Journal of Economic Theory, 101(1): pp. 115-132.

@ Aaberge, R. Gini's Nuclear Family, 2007. Journal of Economic Inequality, 5: pp. 305-322.

@ Aaberge, R. Ranking Intersecting Lorenz Curves, 2009. Social Choice and Welfare, 33: pp. 235 – 259.

@ Aaberge, R., Havnes, T. and Mogstad, M. A Theory for Ranking Distribution Functions, 2013. Statistics Norway Discussion papers, 736.

@ Aaberge, R., Lind, J. T. and Moene, K. The inequality of equal mating, 2018. Mimeo, UiO.

@ Asheim, G. B. Intergenerational Ethics Under Resource Constraints, in Asheim, G. Justifying, characterizing and indicating sustainability, 2007. ISBN: 9781402062001.

@ Asheim, G. B. Discounting While Treating Generations Equally in Hahn, R. W. and Ulph, A. Climate Change and Common Sense: Essays in Honour of Tom Schelling, 2012. ISBN: 9780199692873

@ Asheim, G. B. Escaping the repugnant conclusion: Rank‐discounted utilitarianism with variable population, 2014. Theoretical Economics, 9(3): pp 629-650.

@ Alvaredo, F. , Chancel, L., Piketty, T. Saez, E. and Zucman, G. " Global Inequality Dynamics: New Findings from WID.world", 2017. NBER Working Paper 23119.

@ Atkinson, A. B. On the Measurement of Inequality, 1970. Journal of Economic Theory, 2(3): 244-263.

@ Autor , D. H. Skills, education, and the rise of earnings inequality among the “other 99 percent”, 2014. Science 344(6186): pp. 843-851. DOI: 10.1126/science.1251868

@ Blackorby, C. Bossert, W. and Donaldson, D. Population Ethics, 2006. Centre interuniversitaire derecherche en économie quantitative (CIREQ), 14: 2006.

@ Chichilnisky, G. An axiomatic approach to sustainable development, 1996. Social Choice and Welfare, 13(2): pp: 231-257

@ Dietz, S, and Asheim, G. B. Climate policy under sustainable discounted utilitarianism, 2012. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 63(3): pp: 321-335

@ Lamont, J. and Favor, C. Distributive Justice, 2014. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Archive.

@ Piacquadio, P.G. A fairness justification of utilitarianism, 2017. Econometrica, 85(4): pp. 1261–1276

@ Piketty T, Saez, E. and Stantcheva S. " "Optimal Taxation of Top Incomes: A Tale of Three Elasticities," 2014. American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 6(1): pp: 230-271.

@ Solow, R. M. Intergenerational equity and exhaustible resources Review of Economic Studies, 1974. 41(5): pp: 29-45.

@ Yaari, M. E. A controversial proposal concerning inequality measurement, 1988. Journal of Economic Theory, 44(2): pp. 381-397.

@ Yaari, M. E. The dual theory of choice under risk, 1987. Econometrica 55(1), pp: 95-115.

@ Zuber, S. and Asheim, G. B. Justifying social discounting: The rank-discounted utilitarian approach, 2012. Journal of Economic Theory, 147(4): pp: 1572-1601

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