NORMATIVE ECONOMICS, THEORY OF JUSTICE, EQUALITIES, INEQUALITIES

Books

JUSTICE ET EQUITÉ, CEPREMAP, 1971, et CNRS, 1972.

THE GENERAL THEORY OF JUSTICE, CERAS, 1990.

MODERN THEORIES OF JUSTICE, MIT Press, Cambridge (Mass.), 1996.

JUSTICE AND EQUITY, English translation with new foreword, MIT Press, Cambridge (Mass.), 1998.

MACROJUSTICE: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF FAIRNESS, Cambridge University Press, 2004.

NORMATIVE ECONOMICS, forthcoming.

 

Articles

The Optimal Production of Social Justice. In International Economic Association Conference on Public Economics, Biarritz, 1966, proceedings ed. by H. Guitton and J. Margolis. Economie Publique, Paris: CNRS, 1968, pp. 109-77. Public Economics, London: Mac Millan, 1969, pp. 145-200. Reprinted in Landmark Papers in General Equilibrium Theory, Social Choice and Welfare, The Foundations of 20th Century Economics, selected by K.J. Arrow and G. Debreu, 2001, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, pp.606-653.

La théorie démocratique de la justice sociale, Revue d’Economie Politique, janvier-février 1969, n°1, p. 138-141.

Super-équité, Kyklos, 1973, vol. XXVI, fasc. 4, 26, p. 841-843.

Sur les conséquences économiques des principes de justice et de justice pratique, Revue d’Economie Politique, printemps 1974, 1, p. 80-107.

Unequal inequalities, I, Journal of Economic Theory, june 1976, 12, p. 416-442.

Unequal inequalities, II, Journal of Economic Theory, august 1976, 13, p. 82-111.

Multidimensionnal egalitarianism, The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1977, 91, p. 1-13.

Marx maintenant, in Actualité du marxisme, Proceedings of the Colloquium of Villeneuve d’Ascq, 1981.

Au 2e siècle après Marx, Commentaire, 1983, vol. 6, n° 23, p. 521-525.

The normative economics of unanimity and equality: Equity, adequacy and fundamental dominance with applications to matchings and wages, in Social choice, Justice and Voting, Proceedings of the 9th World Congress of the International Economic Association.

The normative economics of unanimity and equality: Equity, adequacy and fundamental dominance, in Markets and Welfare, ed. by K.J. Arrow, Macmillan, London, 1991, pp. 243-286.

Distributive justice, in A Companion to Contemporary Political Philosophy, ed. by R. Goodin and P. Pettit, Blackwell, Oxford, 1993, pp. 438-461.

The impossibility of utilitarianism, in The Good and the Economical, ed. by P. Koslowski and Y. Shionoya, Springer-Verlag (Berlin, Heidelberg, New-York), 1993, pp. 30-66.

Rational normative economics vs « Social Welfare » and « Social Choice », European Economic Review, 1994, 38, p. 721-730.

The meaning of fundamental preferences and Rejoinder, Social Choice and Welfare, march 1994, p. 194-204.

L’égalité de la liberté, Recherches économiques de Louvain, 1994, n° 1, p. 81-86.

Rational justice and equality, in Models and Measurement of Welfare and Inequality, ed. by W. Eichhorn, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1994, pp. 970-994.

Review of Roemer’s Egalitarian Perspectives, The Review of Economics, november 1994, p. 210-214.

The Economics of Social Sentiments: the case of envy, The Japanese Economic Review, march 1995, n°1, 46, p. 63-87.

Economic Justice : the central problem, European Economic Review, 1995, 39, p. 661-673.

The modern theory of justice, L’Année Sociologique, 1995, 5, p. 297-315.

Moral public choice, Public Choice, 1996, 87, p. 117-148.

The theory of justice, Social Choice and Welfare, 1996, 13, p. 151-182.

Playing fair with fairness, Journal of Economic Survey, 1996, 10(2).

Rational just social choice, in Social Choice Re-Examined, vol.2, ed. by K. Arrow, A. Sen and K. Suzumura, International Economic Association and Macmillan: London, 1996, pp.167-197.

Risk, justice, and social policy, in Restructuring the Welfare State: Ethical Issues of Social Policy in an International Perspective, ed. by P. Koslowski and A. Føllesdal, Springer-Verlag, 1996, pp. 287-318.

The values of liberty, Nordic Journal of Political Economy, 1996, 23-1, p. 25-46.

La théorie de la justice, in Economie Normative, ed. by Hubert Brochier, Economica, Paris, 1997.

The values of freedom, in Freedom in Economics, New Perspectives in Normative Analysis, ed. by J.-F. Laslier, M. Fleurbaey, N. Gravel, and A. Trannoy, Routledge: London, 1997, pp. 17-44.

La théorie moderne de la justice and Macrojustice, in Les Avancées Théoriques en Economie Sociale et leurs applications, Association d’Economie Sociale, IREDU, LATEC, vol.1, CNRS: Paris, 1997, “Macrojustice” pp.3-28, “La théorie moderne de la justice” pp. 29-52.

Review of The Political Economy of Fairness, by E. Zajac, The Review of Economics, 1997.

Review of Economic Rights, ed. by Paul E.F., F.D. Miller, and J.E. Paul, Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 1997.

Chance and Justice: Social policy and the Harsanyi-Vickrey-Rawls Problem, European Economic Review, vol. 42, n°8, 1998, p. 1393-1416.

Rational foundations of income inequality measurement, in Handbook on Income Inequality Measurement, ed. by J. Silber, Kluwer Academic Publishers: Boston, Dordrecht, London, 1999, pp. 19-94.

A historical introduction to normative economics, Social Choice and Welfare, 2000.

Unequal thoughts, Review of Thinking about Inequality by Y. Amiel and F. Cowell, and of Economic Inequality and Income Distribution by D. Champernowne and F. Cowell, Journal of Economics, vol. 73, 1, 2001, p. 96-109.

To each according to her work? Just entitlement from action: desert, merit, responsibility and equality of opportunity, 2001, IDEP n°01-07, Marseille.

On health and justice, WHO, 2001, and in Global Health: from Goodness to Fairness, ed. by Dan Wikler, 2003.

Quelques souvenirs de John Rawls, Journal de Philosophie Economique, 2003, p. 21-31.

Logique et usage du Contrat Social, Journal de Philosophie Economique, 2004, p. 3-17.

Liberty and distribution: Macrojustice from social freedom, Social Choice and Welfare, 2004, vol. 22, p. 83-112.

Review of The Myth of Ownership by Murphy and T. Nagel, Archives Européennes de Sociologie, 2003.

Les Théories du Contrat Social, Dictionnaire du Sociologue, ed. by R. Boudon et al., Presses Universitaires de France: Paris, 2004.

Review of Classical Utilitarianism from Hume to Mill by Frederik Rosen, Journal of Economics, 2005.

Macrojustice, in Leçons de philosophie économique, edited by A. Leroux and P. Livet, Economica: Paris, 2005.

Liberté, justice et efficacité: distribution, impôts et transferts optimaux, Revue Economique, 2006.

Macrojustice: la politique distributive et fiscale voulue par une société libre, efficace et solidaire, Revue d’Economie Politique, 2006.

Economic inequality, Encyclopedia of Law and Society, 2006.

Qu’est-ce qu’un impôt juste? Interview de Serge-Christophe Kolm, Regards croisés sur l’économie, n°1, Mars 2007, p. 37-50.

Macrojustice: distribution, impôts et transferts optimaux, Revue d’Economie Politique, n°1, Janvier-Février 2007, p. 61-89.

Justice, in Economics and Ethics, edited by J. Peil and I. van Staveren, Cheltenham : Edward Elgar, 2009, pp. 292-300.

Inequality, in Economics and Ethics, edited by J. Peil and I. van Staveren, Cheltenham : Edward Elgar, 2008, pp. 267-275.

Response to E. Schokkaert on Macrojustice, Economics and Philosophy, 25, p. 85-98, 2009.

Equality, in International Encyclopedia of Political Science, Sage Publications, 2010.

Equal Liberties and the Resulting Optimum Income Distribution and Taxation, in Inequality and Opportunity, ed. by J. Bishop and B. Zheng, Papers from the Second ECINEQ Society Meeting, Research of Economic Inequality, Volume 16, Chapter 1, 2008.

General Presentation, in On Kolm’s Theory of Macrojustice, ed. by C. Gamel and M. Lubrano, Heidelberg: Springer Verlag, 2010, chapter 2.

Economic Macrojustice: Fair optimum income distribution, taxation and transfers, in On Kolm’s Theory of Macrojustice, ed. by C. Gamel and M. Lubrano, Heidelberg: Springer Verlag, 2010, chapter 3.

Macrojustice in normative economics and ethics, in On Kolm’s Theory of Macrojustice, ed. by C. Gamel and M. Lubrano, Heidelberg: Springer Verlag, 2010, chapter 12.

Défiscalisation des heures supplémentaires : la théorie, Raisons Politiques, n°33, Février 2009, p. 45-55.

On real economic freedom, Social Choice and Welfare, 2009.

Social Ethics and Rationality, New Directions for the Optimum Production of Social Justice : Meaningful Welfare, Equal Liberties, Social Solidarity. For Inequality, New Directions, Cornell University, Ithaca, 11-13 September 2009.

Inequality, new directions: full ethical foundations and consequences, January 2010 (Journal of Economic Inequality).

Equal-equivalents for inequality, welfare and liberty: concepts and policy, in Inequality, Mobility and Segregation: Essays in Honor of Jacques Silber, edited by J. Bishop and R. Salas, Emerald, Bingley, UK, 2012, pp. 117-134.

Preface: Possible Economic Transfers, Economic Modelling, 2013, pp. 867-869.

Théories modernes de l’exploitation, forthcoming book.

Research documents:

More equal distribution of bundles of commodities, Cepremap, 1973.

Measuring inequality, Cepremap, 1973.

Rectifiances et dominances intégrales de tous degrés, Cepremap, 1974.

Multidimensional inequality comparisons, Cepremap, 1975.

La société bien ordonnée: la justice comme justesse, Ceras-31, 1984.

Le raisonnement d’éthique sociale, Ceras-41, 1985.

Adequation, equity and fundamental analysis, Ceras-59, 1987.

Adequation, Ceras-69, 1987.

Adequate or equitable, Ceras-73, 1988.

Adequacy, equity and fundamental dominance : unanimous and comparable allocations in rational social choice, with applications to mariage and wages, Ceras-76, 1989.

The ethical economics of envy, Ceras-90, German Bernacer Lecture, University of Alicante, 1991.

Axioms of fairness, Ceras-91, 1991.

Super-equity, Ceras-98, German Bernacer Lecture, University of Alicante, 1991.

Philosophical reasons for equity, Ceras-99, 1991.

The Impossibility of utilitarianism, C.G.P.C., 1992.

Fundamental analysis, C.G.P.C., 1992.

Equal Liberty, C.G.P.C., 1993.

Inequalities and super equity, C.G.P.C., 1993.

Efficient economic justice, C.G.P.C., 1993.

The economics of envy, C.G.P.C., 1993.

Income justice: Its reason and optimal policy, International Economic Association World Congress (Tunis), and C.G.P.C., 1995.

Risk and justice: Harsanyi’s enigmas and social policy, C.G.P.C., 1995.

The comparison of pairwise preferences and its normative consequences, C.G.P.C., 1996.

Intermediate measures of inequality, CGPC, 1996.

Freedom Justice, University of Caen, 1998.

Vox populi, vox dei: endogenous social choice and the rational original position, IDEP, Marseille, 2001.

The freedom ordering of budget sets : volume or pointed distance ? IDEP n°05-07, 2005.

On real economic freedom, CGPC, 2006.

The rational, recursive original position. A fully determined impartial endogenous social welfare function, EHESS.

La théorie des transferts sociaux et son application, May 2002, 417 pages. Rapport final, Commissariat Général du Plan, Comité “Emploi, travail, redistribution”, n° de subvention 18.1998.