John E. Roemer

Yale University - Department of Political Science

Elizabeth S. and A. Varick Stout Professor of Political Science and Economics

Box 208269

New Haven, DC 06520-8269

United States

http://pantheon.yale.edu/~jer39/

Yale University - Cowles Foundation

Box 208281

New Haven, CT 06520-8281

United States

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Scholarly Papers (56)

1.

Equality of Opportunity

Cowles Foundation Discussion Paper No. 1921
Number of pages: 112 Posted: 27 Oct 2013
John E. Roemer and Alain Trannoy
Yale University - Department of Political Science and National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) - Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS)
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Equality of opportunity, Responsibility, Circumstances, Effort, Veil of ignorance

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What Is Socialism Today? Conceptions of a Cooperative Economy

Cowles Foundation Discussion Paper No. 2220, January 2020
Number of pages: 60 Posted: 24 Jan 2020
John E. Roemer
Yale University - Department of Political Science
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Market socialism, General equilibrium, Cooperation, Kantian optimization, First theorem of welfare economics

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Economic Development as Opportunity Equalization

Cowles Foundation Discussion Paper No. 1583
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 20 Sep 2006
John E. Roemer
Yale University - Department of Political Science
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Equality of opportunity, Economic development

Economic Development as Opportunity Equalization

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 6530
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 20 Apr 2016
John E. Roemer
Yale University - Department of Political Science
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Economic Theory & Research, Inequality, Population Policies, Rural Poverty Reduction, Poverty Impact Evaluation

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Socialism Revised

Cowles Foundation Discussion Paper No. 2089
Number of pages: 58 Posted: 03 Jun 2017
John E. Roemer
Yale University - Department of Political Science
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Exploitation, Socialist Equality of Opportunity, Market Socialism

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Egalitarianism Against the Veil of Ignorance

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 14 Oct 2001
John E. Roemer
Yale University - Department of Political Science
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Harsanyi, Dworkin, Rawls

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Political Equilibrium with Private Or/And Public Campaign Finance: A Comparison of Institutions

Number of pages: 61 Posted: 08 Mar 2003
John E. Roemer
Yale University - Department of Political Science
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Political Equilibrium, Campaign Finance, Representation

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Does Democracy Engender Equality?

Number of pages: 57 Posted: 14 Oct 2001
John E. Roemer
Yale University - Department of Political Science
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Political Economy, Dynamics, Education, Equality

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The Political Economy of Health Care Finance

CORE Discussion Paper No. 2007/31
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 17 Aug 2007
Juan D. Moreno Ternero and John E. Roemer
Universidad Pablo de Olavide and Yale University - Department of Political Science
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political competition, health care finance, ideological equilibrium, technology

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Modeling Party Competition in General Elections

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 03 Nov 2004
John E. Roemer
Yale University - Department of Political Science
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Downs, Hotelling, Wittman, PUNE, citizen-candidate

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Value and Politics

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 14 Oct 2001
John E. Roemer
Yale University - Department of Political Science
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Political-Economic Equilibrium

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Equalizing Educational Opportunity Through Educational Finance Reform

UC Davis Working Paper No. 99-08
Number of pages: 58 Posted: 19 Apr 2000
Julian R. Betts and John E. Roemer
University of California, San Diego (UCSD) - Department of Economics and Yale University - Department of Political Science
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A Design for Market Socialism

Cowles Foundation Discussion Paper No. 2090
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 01 Jun 2017
John E. Roemer
Yale University - Department of Political Science
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Market socialism, General equilibrium, First welfare theorem, Cooperation, Kantian optimization

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Impartiality and Priority: Part 1: The Veil of Ignorance

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 02 Sep 2004
Juan D. Moreno Ternero and John E. Roemer
Universidad Pablo de Olavide and Yale University - Department of Political Science
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Impartiality, Priority, Veil of ignorance

The Dynamics of Capital Accumulation in the US: Simulations after Piketty

Cowles Foundation Discussion Paper No. 1998
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 21 Apr 2015
Philippe De Donder and John E. Roemer
University of Toulouse 1 - Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) and Yale University - Department of Political Science
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Piketty, Dynamics of wealth accumulation, Intergenerational mobility, Kantian equilibrium

The Dynamics of Capital Accumulation in the US: Simulations after Piketty

Cowles Foundation Discussion Paper No. 1998R
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 24 Jun 2016
Philippe De Donder and John E. Roemer
University of Toulouse 1 - Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) and Yale University - Department of Political Science
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Piketty, dynamics of wealth accumulation, convergence to steady state, spirit of capitalism, differential rates of return to capital, intergenerational mobility, capital levy, US calibration

The Dynamics of Capital Accumulation in the US: Simulations after Piketty

CESifo Working Paper Series No. 5329
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 07 May 2015
Philippe De Donder and John E. Roemer
University of Toulouse 1 - Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) and Yale University - Department of Political Science
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Piketty, dynamics of wealth accumulation, intergenerational mobility, Kantian equilibrium

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What We Owe Our Children, They Their Children, and...

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 19 Apr 2000
John E. Roemer and Roberto Veneziani
Yale University - Department of Political Science and University of London - School of Economics and Finance
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Justice, Development, Dynamic Programming, Optimal Taxation

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Distribution and Politics: A Brief History and Prospect

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 03 Nov 2004
John E. Roemer
Yale University - Department of Political Science
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Political-economic equilibrium

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Racism and Redistribution in the United States: A Solution to the Problem of American Exceptionalism

Number of pages: 84 Posted: 11 Jun 2004
Woojin Lee and John E. Roemer
affiliation not provided to SSRN and Yale University - Department of Political Science
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racism, distribution,endogenous parties, party unanimity Nash equilibrium, anti-solidarity effect

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Eclectic Distributional Ethics

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 08 Mar 2003
John E. Roemer
Yale University - Department of Political Science
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Distributive Justice, Ethics, Axiomatic Social Choice

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Kantian Optimization: An Approach to Cooperative Behavior

Cowles Foundation Discussion Paper No. 1854R
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 27 Oct 2013
John E. Roemer
Yale University - Department of Political Science
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Kantian equilibrium, Social ethos, Implementation

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Xenophobia and Distribution in France: A Politico-Economic Analysis

Number of pages: 76 Posted: 02 Sep 2004
John E. Roemer and Karen Van der Straeten
Yale University - Department of Political Science and Ecole Polytechnique, Paris
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Xenophobia, Racism, Distribution, Political equilibrium

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Kantian Optimization, Social Ethos, and Pareto Efficiency

Cowles Foundation Discussion Paper No. 1854
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 14 Mar 2012
John E. Roemer
Yale University - Department of Political Science
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Kantian equilibrium, Social ethos, Implementation

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Kantian Allocations

Cowles Foundation Discussion Paper No. 1582
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 19 Sep 2006
John E. Roemer
Yale University - Department of Political Science
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Cooperative solution, Proportional solution, Voting paradox, Prisoners' dilemma, Kant, Categorical imperative

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The Ethics of Distribution in a Warming Planet

Cowles Foundation Discussion Paper No. 1693
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 09 Apr 2009
John E. Roemer
Yale University - Department of Political Science
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Climate change, Intergenerational justice, Sustainability, Utilitarianism

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A Dynamic Analysis of Human Welfare in a Warming Planet

Cowles Foundation Discussion Paper No. 1673
Number of pages: 70 Posted: 14 Aug 2008
Humberto Llavador, John E. Roemer and Joaquim Silvestre
Universitat Pompeu Fabra - Faculty of Economic and Business Sciences, Yale University - Department of Political Science and University of California, Davis - Department of Economics
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Quality of life, Climate change, Education, Maximin, Growth

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Indeterminacy of Citizen-Candidate Equilibrium

Number of pages: 9 Posted: 08 Mar 2003
John E. Roemer
Yale University - Department of Political Science
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Citizen-candidate Equilibrium, Political Equilibrium

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Intergenerational Justice and Sustainability Under the Leximin Ethic

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 09 May 2005
John E. Roemer
Yale University - Department of Political Science
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leximin, sustainability, technical change

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An Equal-Opportunity Approach to the Allocation of International Aid

UC Davis Working Paper No. 99-10
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 02 May 2000
Humberto Llavador and John E. Roemer
Universitat Pompeu Fabra - Faculty of Economic and Business Sciences and Yale University - Department of Political Science
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Objectivity, Priority, and the Veil of Ignorance

CORE Discussion Paper No. 2005/81, Moreno-Ternero, J.D., and Roemer, J., THE VEIL OF IGNORANCE VIOLATES PRIORITY, ECONOMICS AND PHILOSOPHY, Vol. 24, No. 2, pp. 233-257, 2008
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 26 Feb 2006 Last Revised: 21 Aug 2011
Juan D. Moreno Ternero and John E. Roemer
Universidad Pablo de Olavide and Yale University - Department of Political Science
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Impartiality, Objectivity, Priority, Veil of ignorance

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A Positive Theory of Income Taxation Where Politicians Focus Upon Swing and Core Voters

Cowles Foundation Discussion Paper No. 1637
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 06 Feb 2008
John E. Roemer
Yale University - Department of Political Science
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Political economy, Income taxation, Political equilibrium

Impartiality, Priority, and Solidarity in the Theory of Justice

CORE Discussion Paper 2005/77
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 28 Feb 2006
Juan D. Moreno Ternero and John E. Roemer
Universidad Pablo de Olavide and Yale University - Department of Political Science
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Impartiality, Priority, Solidarity, Allocation rules, Characterization result

Impartiality, Priority, and Solidarity in the Theory of Justice

Econometrica, Vol. 74, No. 5, pp. 1419-1427, 2006
Posted: 13 Feb 2007
Juan D. Moreno Ternero and John E. Roemer
Universidad Pablo de Olavide and Yale University - Department of Political Science

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A Theory of Cooperation in Games with an Application to Market Socialism

Cowles Foundation Discussion Paper No. 2125
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 20 Mar 2018
John E. Roemer
Yale University - Department of Political Science
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Kantian equilibrium, cooperation, tragedy of the commons, free rider problem, market socialism

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Evolutionary Stability of Kantian Optimization

Number of pages: 21 Posted: 19 Jul 2012
Philip A. Curry and John E. Roemer
University of Waterloo and Yale University - Department of Political Science
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Kantian equilibrium, Nash equilibrium, evolutionary stable strategy, cooperation

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Impartiality and Priority: Part 2: A Characterization with Solidarity

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 04 Jun 2005
Juan D. Moreno Ternero and John E. Roemer
Universidad Pablo de Olavide and Yale University - Department of Political Science
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Impartiality, Solidarity, Priority, Allocation rules, Characterization result

Mixed Oligopoly Equilibria When Firms' Objectives are Endogenous

Cowles Foundation Discussion Paper No. 1581
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 19 Sep 2006
Philippe De Donder and John E. Roemer
University of Toulouse 1 - Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) and Yale University - Department of Political Science
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Mixed oligopoly, Vertical differentiation, Factions, Party-unanimity, Nash equilibrium

Mixed Oligopoly Equilibria When Firms' Objectives are Endogenous

CEPR Discussion Paper No. 5900
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 29 Dec 2006
Philippe De Donder and John E. Roemer
University of Toulouse 1 - Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) and Yale University - Department of Political Science
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Mixed oligopoly, vertical differentiation, factions, party-unanimity Nash equilibrium

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The Double Role of Ethnic Heterogeneity in Explaining Welfare-State Generosity

Cowles Foundation Discussion Paper No. 1972
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 03 Dec 2014
Markus Jantti, Gerald D. Jaynes and John E. Roemer
Stockholm University, Yale University - Department of Economics and Yale University - Department of Political Science
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Political economy, Welfare state, Social insurance, Ethnic fractionalization

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Dynamic Equality of Opportunity

Cowles Foundation Discussion Paper No. 2034
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 02 Apr 2016 Last Revised: 12 Jun 2016
John E. Roemer and Burak Ünveren
Yale University - Department of Political Science and Yildiz Technical University - Department of Economics
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Equality of opportunity, intergenerational transfers, education, dynamic model

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Kant and Lindahl

Cowles Foundation Discussion Paper No. 2278
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 22 Mar 2021
John E. Roemer and Joaquim Silvestre
Yale University - Department of Political Science and University of California, Davis - Department of Economics
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Public goods, Public provision, Private Provision, Voluntary contributions, Wicksell, Lindahl, Kant, Categorical imperative

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Global Unanimity Equilibrium on the Carbon Budget

Cowles Foundation Discussion Paper No. 2172
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 01 Apr 2019
Humberto Llavador and John E. Roemer
Universitat Pompeu Fabra - Faculty of Economic and Business Sciences and Yale University - Department of Political Science
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Unanimity equilibrium, Climate change, Carbon pricing, Integrated assessment models

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Equality of Opportunity and the Distribution of Long-Run Income in Sweden

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5466
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 07 Feb 2011
Anders Bjorklund, Markus Jantti and John E. Roemer
Stockholm University, Stockholm University and Yale University - Department of Political Science
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equality of opportunity, family background, inequality, long-run income

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Inequality of Income Acquisition: The Role of Childhood Circumstances

ZEW - Centre for European Economic Research Discussion Paper No. 15-084
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 04 Jan 2016
Andreas Peichl, Paul Hufe, John E. Roemer and Martin Ungerer
ZEW – Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research, Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW), Yale University - Department of Political Science and ZEW – Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research
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Equality of Opportunity; Earnings Inequality ; Lower bounds; Early childhood achievements

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Embedding Cooperation in General-Equilibrium Models

Cowles Foundation Discussion Paper No. 2098
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 11 Aug 2017
John E. Roemer
Yale University - Department of Political Science
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Kantian optimization, Cooperation, General equilibrium, Market socialism, Global emissions control, Worker-owned firms, Externalities, Public goods

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North-South Convergence and the Allocation of CO2 Emissions

Cowles Foundation Discussion Paper No. 1932
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 18 Dec 2013
Humberto Llavador, John E. Roemer and Joaquim Silvestre
Universitat Pompeu Fabra - Faculty of Economic and Business Sciences, Yale University - Department of Political Science and University of California, Davis - Department of Economics
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Climate change, Sustainability, North-South convergence, International negotiations

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Barefoot and Footloose Doctors: Optimal Resource Allocation in Developing Countries with Medical Migration

Cowles Foundation Discussion Paper No. 1922
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 27 Oct 2013 Last Revised: 03 Jun 2015
John E. Roemer and Pedro Rosa Dias
Yale University - Department of Political Science and University of Sussex - Department of Economics
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Community health workers, Burden of disease, Developing countries, Migration, Optimal resource allocation

An Allegory of the Political Influence of the Top 1%

CESifo Working Paper Series No. 4478
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 26 Nov 2013
Philippe De Donder and John E. Roemer
University of Toulouse 1 - Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) and Yale University - Department of Political Science
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political economy, Kantian equilibrium, lobbying, regulatory capture

An Allegory of the Political Influence of the Top 1%

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP9745
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 19 Nov 2013
Philippe De Donder and John E. Roemer
University of Toulouse 1 - Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) and Yale University - Department of Political Science
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Kantian equilibrium, lobbying, political economy, regulatory capture

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Sustainability in the Presence of Global Warming: Theory and Empirics

UNDP-HDRO Occasional Papers No. 2011/5
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 08 Nov 2013
Humberto Llavador, John E. Roemer and Joaquim Silvestre
Universitat Pompeu Fabra - Faculty of Economic and Business Sciences, Yale University - Department of Political Science and University of California, Davis - Department of Economics
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Multidimensional Poverty with Missing Attributes

Number of pages: 11 Posted: 11 May 2010
Avidit Raj Acharya and John E. Roemer
Princeton University - Princeton School of Public and International Affairs and Yale University - Department of Political Science
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multidimensional poverty

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A Game-Theoretic Analysis of Childhood Vaccination Behavior: Nash Versus Kant

Cowles Foundation Discussion Paper No. 2317, 2021
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 11 Feb 2022
University of Toulouse 1 - Toulouse School of Economics (TSE), Universitat Pompeu Fabra - Faculty of Economic and Business Sciences and Yale University - Department of Political Science
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Kantian equilibrium, Nash equilibrium, Vaccination, Social norm

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"A Game-Theoretic Analysis of Childhoof Vaccination Behavior: Nash Versus Kant"

CESifo Working Paper No. 9507
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 18 Jan 2022
University of Toulouse 1 - Toulouse School of Economics (TSE), Universitat Pompeu Fabra - Faculty of Economic and Business Sciences, University of East Anglia (UEA) - Centre for Behavioural and Experimental Social Science (CBESS), Yale University - Department of Political Science and Centro Estudios Espinosa Yglesias
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Kantian equilibrium, Nash equilibrium, vaccination, social norm

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Intergenerational Justice When Future Worlds are Uncertain

Cowles Foundation Discussion Paper No. 1692
Posted: 10 Apr 2009
Humberto Llavador, John E. Roemer and Joaquim Silvestre
Universitat Pompeu Fabra - Faculty of Economic and Business Sciences, Yale University - Department of Political Science and University of California, Davis - Department of Economics

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Discounted utilitarianism, Rawlsian, Sustainability, Maximin, Uncertainty, Expected utility, von Neumann-Morgenstern, Dynamic welfare maximization

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Distributive Class Politics and the Political Geography of Interwar Europe

University of California, Davis WP #98-07
Posted: 09 Jun 1998
John E. Roemer
Yale University - Department of Political Science

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Trade Unions and Transfer Payments: When are They Reasons to Prefer Democracy to Dictatorship?

UC Davis Working Paper #97-25
Posted: 03 Apr 1998
John E. Roemer
Yale University - Department of Political Science

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Discretionary Power Causes Divergent Politics

UC Davis Working Paper #97-24
Posted: 27 Mar 1998
John E. Roemer
Yale University - Department of Political Science

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A Note on the Transfer of Power from Parties to Candidates

UC Davis Working Paper No. 97-23
Posted: 16 Mar 1998
John E. Roemer
Yale University - Department of Political Science

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The Democratic Political Economy of Progressive Income Taxation

UC Davis Working Paper #97-11
Posted: 15 Apr 1997
John E. Roemer
Yale University - Department of Political Science

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Variations in the Size of the Welfare State: A Preference- Based Explanation

UC Davis Working Paper #96-11
Posted: 18 Mar 1997
John E. Roemer
Yale University - Department of Political Science

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The Democratic Class Struggle: A Survey of Recent Results

UC Davis Working Paper #96-07
Posted: 18 Feb 1997
John E. Roemer
Yale University - Department of Political Science

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