J. Roemer

Publications384
h-index53
Citations11,681
Highly Influential Citations711
Claim Author Page
Author pages are created from data sourced from our academic publisher partnerships and public sources.

Recommended Authors

  • R. Assaad
  • 152 Publications • 3,495 Citations
  • T. Piketty
  • 249 Publications • 31,094 Citations
  • Emmanuel Saez
  • 237 Publications • 37,361 Citations
  • C. Krafft
  • 147 Publications • 1,430 Citations
  • Publications
  • Influence
Equality of Opportunity
This forthcoming chapter in the Handbook of Income Distribution (eds., A. Atkinson and F. Bourguignon) summarizes the literature on equality of opportunity. We begin by reviewing the philosophical…
A General Theory of Exploitation and Class
A pragmatic theory of responsibility for the egalitarian planner
Equality and responsibility What should an egalitarian seek to equalize? Welfare is, of course, an obvious candidate, and each contributor to the recent discussion has taken it as the foil for his…
Theories of Distributive Justice
Acknowledgments Introduction The Measurement of Utility and Arrow's Theorem The Measurability and Comparability of Utility The Arrow Impossibility Theorem Reformulation of the Impossibility Theorem…
Analytical Foundations of Marxian Economic Theory
Professor Roemer's goal in this book is to give a rigorous view of classical Marxian economic theory by presenting specific analytic models. The theory is not extended to deal with new problems, but…
The Democratic Political Economy Of Progressive Income Taxation
Why do both left and right political parties typically propose progressive income taxation schemes in political competition? Analysis of this problem has been hindered by the two-dimensionality of…
Why the poor do not expropriate the rich: an old argument in new garb
Political Competition: Theory and Applications
Preface Introduction 1. Political Competition over a Single Issue: The Case of Certainty 1.1 Citizens, Voters, and Parties 1.2 The Downs Model 1.3 The Wittman Model 1.4 Conclusion 2. Modeling Party…
Political–economic equilibrium when parties represent constituents: The unidimensional case
Abstract. A political–economic environment is studied in which two parties, representing different constituencies of citizens, compete over a proportional tax rate to be levied on private endowments,…
Equality of opportunity: A progress report
  • J. Roemer
  • Economics
    Soc. Choice Welf.
  • 10 April 2002
TLDR
The recent literature in egalitarian political philosophy, particularly the idea that in the equal-opportunity ethic, there is, as well as a desire to equalize something, an insistence that individuals be held responsible for what happens to them.
...
1
2
3
4
5
...