10'th International Meeting of the Society for Social Choice and Welfare

Plenary speakers

Arrow lecture 

Marc Fleurbaey (University Paris Descartes)

"Assessing risky social situations"

This paper re-examines the welfare economics of risk. It singles out a class of criteria, the "expected equally-distributed equivalent", as the unique class which avoids serious drawbacks of existing approaches. Such criteria behave like ex-post criteria when the final statistical distribution of well-being is known ex ante, and like ex-ante criteria when risk generates no inequality. The paper also provides a new result on the tension between inequality aversion and respect of individual ex ante
preferences, in the vein of Harsanyi's aggregation theorem.

 

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Condorcet lecture

Walter Bossert (University of Montreal)

"Consistency, Choice, and Rationality"
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Presidential Address

John Roemer (Yale University)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Social Choice and Welfare Prize

Christian List (London School of Economics) and Franz Dietrich (Maastricht University)