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Working Papers

2015

1. Applications of Population Principles: A Note
   Economics working papers, Vancouver School of Economics

2010

2. Index-Number Tests and the Common-Scaling Social Cost-of-Living Index
   Economics working papers, Vancouver School of Economics View citations (5)
   See also Journal Article Index-number tests and the common-scaling social cost-of-living index, Social Choice and Welfare, Springer (2012) (2012)

2006

3. Hicksian Surplus Measures of Individual Welfare Change When There is Price and Income Uncertainty
   Vanderbilt University Department of Economics Working Papers, Vanderbilt University Department of Economics
   See also Chapter Hicksian Surplus Measures of Individual Welfare Change When There is Price and Income Uncertainty, Studies in Choice and Welfare, Springer (2008) (2008)
4. Population Ethics
   Cahiers de recherche, Universite de Montreal, Departement de sciences economiques View citations (19)
   Also in Cahiers de recherche, Centre interuniversitaire de recherche en économie quantitative, CIREQ (2006) View citations (2)

2005

5. Intertemporal Social Evaluation
   Cahiers de recherche, Centre interuniversitaire de recherche en économie quantitative, CIREQ View citations (3)
   Also in Cahiers de recherche, Universite de Montreal, Departement de sciences economiques (2005) View citations (3)
   See also Chapter Intertemporal Social Evaluation, International Economic Association Series, Palgrave Macmillan (2007) (2007)
6. Population Ethics and the Value of Life
   WIDER Working Paper Series, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)
   Also in Cahiers de recherche, Centre interuniversitaire de recherche en économie quantitative, CIREQ (2003)
   Cahiers de recherche, Universite de Montreal, Departement de sciences economiques (2003) View citations (2)

2004

7. ANONYMOUS SINGLE-PROFILE WELFARISM
   The Warwick Economics Research Paper Series (TWERPS), University of Warwick, Department of Economics
   Also in Cahiers de recherche, Centre interuniversitaire de recherche en économie quantitative, CIREQ (2004)
   Economic Research Papers, University of Warwick - Department of Economics (2004)
   Cahiers de recherche, Universite de Montreal, Departement de sciences economiques (2004)
   See also Journal Article Anonymous Single-profile Welfarism, Social Choice and Welfare, Springer (2006) View citations (9) (2006)
8. MULTI-PROFILE WELFARISM: A GENERALISATION
   The Warwick Economics Research Paper Series (TWERPS), University of Warwick, Department of Economics
   Also in Economic Research Papers, University of Warwick - Department of Economics (2004) View citations (4)
   See also Journal Article Multi-profile welfarism: A generalization, Social Choice and Welfare, Springer (2005) View citations (18) (2005)
9. Social Aggregation Without the Expected Utility Hypothesis
   Working Papers, HAL View citations (19)

2003

10. Harsanyi's Social Aggregation Theorem: A Multi-Profile Approach with Variable-Population Extensions
    Cahiers de recherche, Centre interuniversitaire de recherche en économie quantitative, CIREQ View citations (2)
    Also in Cahiers de recherche, Universite de Montreal, Departement de sciences economiques (2003) View citations (2)

2002

11. CRITICAL-LEVEL POPULATION PRINCIPLES AND THE REPUGNANT CONCLUSION
    Cahiers de recherche, Centre interuniversitaire de recherche en économie quantitative, CIREQ View citations (3)
    Also in Cahiers de recherche, Universite de Montreal, Departement de sciences economiques (2002) View citations (4)
12. In Defense of Welfarism
    Cahiers de recherche, Universite de Montreal, Departement de sciences economiques View citations (2)

2001

13. A Representation Theorem for Domains with Discrete and Continuous Variables
    Cahiers de recherche, Centre interuniversitaire de recherche en économie quantitative, CIREQ
    Also in Cahiers de recherche, Universite de Montreal, Departement de sciences economiques (2001)
14. The Axiomatic Approach to Population Ethics
    Discussion Paper, Center for Intergenerational Studies, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University View citations (3)
    Also in Cahiers de recherche, Universite de Montreal, Departement de sciences economiques (2001) View citations (3)
    Cahiers de recherche, Centre interuniversitaire de recherche en économie quantitative, CIREQ (2001) View citations (6)
    See also Journal Article The Axiomatic Approach to Population Ethics, Politics, Philosophy & Economics (2003) View citations (6) (2003)

2000

15. Population Principles with Number-Dependent Critical Levels
    Working Papers, Rice University, Department of Economics View citations (3)
    See also Journal Article Population Principles with Number‐Dependent Critical Levels, Journal of Public Economic Theory, Association for Public Economic Theory (2002) View citations (2) (2002)

1999

16. Equivalent-Income Functions and Income-Dependent Equivalence Scales
    Discussion Papers, Department of Economics, Simon Fraser University View citations (23)

1997

17. Price-Independent Welfare Precriptions and Population Size
    Discussion Papers, University of Nottingham, School of Economics
    See also Journal Article Price-Independent Welfare Prescriptions and Population Size, Journal of Economic Theory, Elsevier (1999) View citations (2) (1999)
18. Rationalizable Solutions to Pure Population Problems
    Discussion Papers, University of Nottingham, School of Economics
    See also Journal Article Rationalizable solutions to pure population problems, Social Choice and Welfare, Springer (1999) View citations (3) (1999)

1996

19. Foreign Aid and Population Policy: Some Ethical Considerations
    Working Papers, University of Waterloo, Department of Economics View citations (1)
    See also Journal Article Foreign aid and population policy: some ethical considerations, Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier (1999) View citations (6) (1999)
20. Income Inequality Measurement: The Normative Approach
    G.R.E.Q.A.M., Universite Aix-Marseille III View citations (1)
21. Information Invariance in Variable-Population Social-Choice Problems
    Working Papers, University of Waterloo, Department of Economics View citations (1)
    See also Journal Article Information Invariance in Variable-Population Social-Choice Problems, International Economic Review, Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania and Osaka University Institute of Social and Economic Research Association (1999) View citations (13) (1999)
22. Intertemporally Consistent Population Ethics: Birth-Date Dependent Classical Principles
    G.R.E.Q.A.M., Universite Aix-Marseille III View citations (2)
    See also Journal Article Intertemporally Consistent Population Ethics: Birth-date Dependent Classical Principles, The Japanese Economic Review, Japanese Economic Association (1997) View citations (3) (1997)
23. Uncertainty and Critical-Level Population Principles: A Static Model
    G.R.E.Q.A.M., Universite Aix-Marseille III

1995

24. Intertemporal Population Ethics: Critical-Level Utilitarian Principles
    CESifo Working Paper Series, CESifo View citations (87)
    See also Journal Article Intertemporal Population Ethics: Critical-Level Utilitarian Principles, Econometrica, Econometric Society (1995) View citations (94) (1995)
25. Market demand Curves and Dupuit-Marshall Consumer's Surpluses: A General Equilibrium Analysis
    G.R.E.Q.A.M., Universite Aix-Marseille III
    See also Journal Article Market demand curves and Dupuit-Marshall consumers' surpluses: a general equilibrium analysis, Mathematical Social Sciences, Elsevier (1999) View citations (7) (1999)

1994

26. Leximin Population Ethics
    Working Papers, University of Waterloo, Department of Economics
    See also Journal Article Leximin population ethics, Mathematical Social Sciences, Elsevier (1996) View citations (16) (1996)
27. Variable-Population Bargaining Problems: Single-Series and Single-Parameter Gini Solutions
    Working Papers, University of Waterloo, Department of Economics

1993

28. Generalized Ginis and Cooperative Bargaining Solution
    G.R.E.Q.A.M., Universite Aix-Marseille III
    See also Journal Article Generalized Ginis and Cooperative Bargaining Solutions, Econometrica, Econometric Society (1994) View citations (10) (1994)
29. Intertemporal Population Ethics: A Welfarist Approach
    G.R.E.Q.A.M., Universite Aix-Marseille III View citations (1)
30. Multi-Valued Demand and Rational Choice in the two- Commodity Case
    Working Papers, University of Waterloo, Department of Economics
    See also Journal Article Multi-valued demand and rational choice in the two-commodity case, Economics Letters, Elsevier (1995) View citations (5) (1995)

1991

31. Equivalence Scales And the Costs of Children
    G.R.E.Q.A.M., Universite Aix-Marseille III View citations (1)

1990

32. A WELFARIST PROOF OF ARROW'S THEOREM
    G.R.E.Q.A.M., Universite Aix-Marseille III View citations (19)
    Also in Discussion Papers (REL - Recherches Economiques de Louvain), Université catholique de Louvain, Institut de Recherches Economiques et Sociales (IRES) (1990) View citations (18)

1986

33. Can risk-benefit analysis provide consistent policy evaluations of projects involving loss of life?
    LIDAM Reprints CORE, Université catholique de Louvain, Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE) View citations (6)
    See also Journal Article Can Risk-Benefit Analysis Provide Consistent Policy Evaluations of Projects Involving Loss of Life?, Economic Journal, Royal Economic Society (1986) View citations (6) (1986)

1983

34. Ethically flexible Gini indices for income distributions in the continuum
    LIDAM Reprints CORE, Université catholique de Louvain, Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE) View citations (80)
    See also Journal Article Ethically flexible gini indices for income distributions in the continuum, Journal of Economic Theory, Elsevier (1983) View citations (127) (1983)

1982

35. A normative approach to industrial-performance evaluation and concentration indices
    LIDAM Reprints CORE, Université catholique de Louvain, Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE) View citations (8)
    See also Journal Article A normative approach to industrial-performance evaluation and concentration indices, European Economic Review, Elsevier (1982) View citations (8) (1982)

Journal Articles

2012

1. Index-number tests and the common-scaling social cost-of-living index
   Social Choice and Welfare, 2012, 38, (3), 407-429
   See also Working Paper Index-Number Tests and the Common-Scaling Social Cost-of-Living Index, Economics working papers (2010) View citations (5) (2010)

2007

2. Variable-population extensions of social aggregation theorems
   Social Choice and Welfare, 2007, 28, (4), 567-589 View citations (10)

2006

3. Anonymous Single-profile Welfarism
   Social Choice and Welfare, 2006, 27, (2), 279-287 View citations (9)
   See also Working Paper ANONYMOUS SINGLE-PROFILE WELFARISM, The Warwick Economics Research Paper Series (TWERPS) (2004) (2004)
4. The Identification of Fixed Costs From Consumer Behavior
   Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, 2006, 24, 255-265 View citations (48)

2005

5. Corrigendum to "Equivalent-expenditure functions and equivalent-dependent equivalence scales"
   Journal of Public Economics, 2005, 89, (9-10), 1977-1979
6. Multi-profile welfarism: A generalization
   Social Choice and Welfare, 2005, 24, (2), 253-267 View citations (18)
   Also in Social Choice and Welfare, 2005, 25, (1), 227-228 (2005) View citations (2)
   See also Working Paper MULTI-PROFILE WELFARISM: A GENERALISATION, The Warwick Economics Research Paper Series (TWERPS) (2004) (2004)

2004

7. Equivalent-expenditure functions and expenditure-dependent equivalence scales
   Journal of Public Economics, 2004, 88, (1-2), 175-208 View citations (49)

2003

8. The Axiomatic Approach to Population Ethics
   Politics, Philosophy & Economics, 2003, 2, (3), 342-381 View citations (6)
   See also Working Paper The Axiomatic Approach to Population Ethics, Discussion Paper (2001) View citations (3) (2001)

2002

9. Population Principles with Number‐Dependent Critical Levels
   Journal of Public Economic Theory, 2002, 4, (3), 347-368 View citations (2)
   See also Working Paper Population Principles with Number-Dependent Critical Levels, Working Papers (2000) View citations (3) (2000)

2001

10. Population ethics and the existence of value functions
    Journal of Public Economics, 2001, 82, (2), 301-308 View citations (19)
11. Rationalizable variable-population choice functions
    Economic Theory, 2002, 19, (2), 355-378

2000

12. The Value of Limited Altruism
    Journal of Economic Theory, 2000, 95, (1), 37-70 View citations (3)

1999

13. Foreign aid and population policy: some ethical considerations
    Journal of Development Economics, 1999, 59, (2), 203-232 View citations (6)
    See also Working Paper Foreign Aid and Population Policy: Some Ethical Considerations, Working Papers (1996) View citations (1) (1996)
14. Harsanyi's social aggregation theorem for state-contingent alternatives1
    Journal of Mathematical Economics, 1999, 32, (3), 365-387 View citations (28)
15. Information Invariance in Variable-Population Social-Choice Problems
    International Economic Review, 1999, 40, (2), 403-22 View citations (13)
    See also Working Paper Information Invariance in Variable-Population Social-Choice Problems, Working Papers (1996) View citations (1) (1996)
16. Market demand curves and Dupuit-Marshall consumers' surpluses: a general equilibrium analysis
    Mathematical Social Sciences, 1999, 37, (2), 139-163 View citations (7)
    See also Working Paper Market demand Curves and Dupuit-Marshall Consumer's Surpluses: A General Equilibrium Analysis, G.R.E.Q.A.M. (1995) (1995)
17. Price-Independent Welfare Prescriptions and Population Size
    Journal of Economic Theory, 1999, 84, (1), 111-119 View citations (2)
    See also Working Paper Price-Independent Welfare Precriptions and Population Size, Discussion Papers (1997) (1997)
18. Rationalizable solutions to pure population problems
    Social Choice and Welfare, 1999, 16, (3), 395-407 View citations (3)
    See also Working Paper Rationalizable Solutions to Pure Population Problems, Discussion Papers (1997) (1997)

1998

19. A Quasiordering Is the Intersection of Orderings
    Journal of Economic Theory, 1998, 78, (2), 382-387 View citations (39)
20. Critical levels and the (reverse) repugnant conclusion
    Journal of Economics, 1998, 67, (1), 1-15 View citations (19)
21. Uncertainty and critical-level population principles
    Journal of Population Economics, 1998, 11, (1), 1-20 View citations (28)

1997

22. Birth-Date Dependent Population Ethics: Critical-Level Principles
    Journal of Economic Theory, 1997, 77, (2), 260-284 View citations (25)
23. Critical-Level Utilitarianism and the Population-Ethics Dilemma
    Economics and Philosophy, 1997, 13, (2), 197-230 View citations (17)
24. Intertemporally Consistent Population Ethics: Birth-date Dependent Classical Principles
    The Japanese Economic Review, 1997, 48, (3), 267-292 View citations (3)
    See also Working Paper Intertemporally Consistent Population Ethics: Birth-Date Dependent Classical Principles, G.R.E.Q.A.M. (1996) View citations (2) (1996)

1996

25. Consistency, Replication Invariance, and Generalized Gini Bargaining Solutions
    Journal of Economic Theory, 1996, 69, (2), 367-386 View citations (7)
26. Leximin population ethics
    Mathematical Social Sciences, 1996, 31, (2), 115-131 View citations (16)
    See also Working Paper Leximin Population Ethics, Working Papers (1994) (1994)
27. Quasi-orderings and population ethics
    Social Choice and Welfare, 1996, 13, (2), 129-150 View citations (10)

1995

28. Intertemporal Population Ethics: Critical-Level Utilitarian Principles
    Econometrica, 1995, 63, (6), 1303-20 View citations (94)
    See also Working Paper Intertemporal Population Ethics: Critical-Level Utilitarian Principles, CESifo Working Paper Series (1995) View citations (87) (1995)
29. Multi-valued demand and rational choice in the two-commodity case
    Economics Letters, 1995, 47, (1), 5-10 View citations (5)
    See also Working Paper Multi-Valued Demand and Rational Choice in the two- Commodity Case, Working Papers (1993) (1993)

1994

30. Generalized Ginis and Cooperative Bargaining Solutions
    Econometrica, 1994, 62, (5), 1161-78 View citations (10)
    See also Working Paper Generalized Ginis and Cooperative Bargaining Solution, G.R.E.Q.A.M. (1993) (1993)
31. Information and Intergroup Transfers
    American Economic Review, 1994, 84, (2), 440-47 View citations (5)

1993

32. Household equivalence scales and welfare comparisons: A comment
    Journal of Public Economics, 1993, 50, (1), 143-146 View citations (4)

1992

33. ON THE AGGREGATION OF MONEY MEASURES OF WELL-BEING IN APPLIED WELFARE ECONOMICS
    Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 1992, 17, (01), 12 View citations (31)
34. Pigs and Guinea Pigs: A Note on the Ethics of Animal Exploitation
    Economic Journal, 1992, 102, (415), 1345-69 View citations (46)

1990

35. A Review Article: The Case against the Use of the Sum of Compensating Variations in Cost-Benefit Analysis
    Canadian Journal of Economics, 1990, 23, (3), 471-94 View citations (64)

1988

36. Cash versus Kind, Self-selection, and Efficient Transfers
    American Economic Review, 1988, 78, (4), 691-700 View citations (141)
37. Money metric utility: A harmless normalization?
    Journal of Economic Theory, 1988, 46, (1), 120-129 View citations (50)
38. Social choice in economic environments
    Journal of Economic Theory, 1988, 46, (2), 291-308 View citations (16)

1987

39. Welfare ratios and distributionally sensitive cost-benefit analysis
    Journal of Public Economics, 1987, 34, (3), 265-290 View citations (51)

1986

40. Can Risk-Benefit Analysis Provide Consistent Policy Evaluations of Projects Involving Loss of Life?
    Economic Journal, 1986, 96, (383), 758-73 View citations (6)
    See also Working Paper Can risk-benefit analysis provide consistent policy evaluations of projects involving loss of life?, LIDAM Reprints CORE (1986) View citations (6) (1986)
41. Properties of Fixed-Population Poverty Indices
    International Economic Review, 1986, 27, (3), 667-88 View citations (31)

1984

42. Consumer's Surplus and Welfare Change in a Simple Dynamic Model
    The Review of Economic Studies, 1984, 51, (1), 171-176 View citations (9)
43. Decentralized Control of a Socialist Industry
    Canadian Journal of Economics, 1984, 17, (1), 99-110 View citations (4)
44. Ethical Social Index Numbers and the Measurement of Effective Tax-Benefit Progressivity
    Canadian Journal of Economics, 1984, 17, (4), 683-94 View citations (40)
45. Person-Specific Costs of Production: Hours of Work, Rates of Pay, Labour Contracts
    Canadian Journal of Economics, 1984, 17, (3), 441-49 View citations (1)
46. Social Choice with Interpersonal Utility Comparisons: A Diagrammatic Introduction
    International Economic Review, 1984, 25, (2), 327-56 View citations (57)
47. Social criteria for evaluating population change
    Journal of Public Economics, 1984, 25, (1-2), 13-33 View citations (135)

1983

48. Ethically flexible gini indices for income distributions in the continuum
    Journal of Economic Theory, 1983, 29, (2), 353-358 View citations (127)
    See also Working Paper Ethically flexible Gini indices for income distributions in the continuum, LIDAM Reprints CORE (1983) View citations (80) (1983)

1982

49. A normative approach to industrial-performance evaluation and concentration indices
    European Economic Review, 1982, 19, (1), 89-121 View citations (8)
    See also Working Paper A normative approach to industrial-performance evaluation and concentration indices, LIDAM Reprints CORE (1982) View citations (8) (1982)
50. Ratio-Scale and Translation-Scale Full Interpersonal Comparability without Domain Restrictions: Admissible Social-Evaluation Functions
    International Economic Review, 1982, 23, (2), 249-68 View citations (63)

1981

51. A New Procedure for the Measurement of Inequality within and among Population Subgroups
    Canadian Journal of Economics, 1981, 14, (4), 665-85 View citations (92)
52. Patience, More Than Its Own Reward: A Note on Price Discrimination
    Canadian Journal of Economics, 1981, 14, (1), 93-105 View citations (2)

1980

53. A Theoretical Treatment of Indices of Absolute Inequality
    International Economic Review, 1980, 21, (1), 107-36 View citations (100)
54. A single-parameter generalization of the Gini indices of inequality
    Journal of Economic Theory, 1980, 22, (1), 67-86 View citations (347)
55. Ethical Indices for the Measurement of Poverty
    Econometrica, 1980, 48, (4), 1053-60 View citations (70)

1979

56. Certain Alternatives for Price Uncertainty
    Canadian Journal of Economics, 1979, 12, (4), 718-28
57. Notes on economic equality
    Journal of Public Economics, 1979, 12, (2), 205-214 View citations (17)

1978

58. Measures of relative equality and their meaning in terms of social welfare
    Journal of Economic Theory, 1978, 18, (1), 59-80 View citations (186)

1977

59. Biased Measurements with Unbiased Expectations
    Economic Journal, 1977, 87, (348), 755-60
60. Specific Human Capital and Shared Investments Again
    Canadian Journal of Economics, 1977, 10, (3), 474-75 View citations (3)
61. Utility vs equity: Some plausible quasi-orderings
    Journal of Public Economics, 1977, 7, (3), 365-381 View citations (12)

1976

62. Firm-Specific Human Capital: A Shared Investment or Optimal Entrapment?
    Canadian Journal of Economics, 1976, 9, (3), 462-72 View citations (5)
63. Non-Paternalism and the Basic Theorems of Welfare Economics
    Canadian Journal of Economics, 1976, 9, (3), 492-507 View citations (16)

1970

64. On the Dynamics of Air Pollution Control
    Canadian Journal of Economics, 1970, 3, (3), 422-31

1969

65. A Synthesis of Primitive Neoclassical Models of Closed and Open Economies
    Canadian Journal of Economics, 1969, 2, (1), 130-134

Books

2005

1. Population Issues in Social Choice Theory, Welfare Economics, and Ethics
   Cambridge Books, Cambridge University Press View citations (275)
   Also in Cambridge Books, Cambridge University Press (2005) View citations (274)

Chapters

2008

1. Hicksian Surplus Measures of Individual Welfare Change When There is Price and Income Uncertainty
   Springer
   See also Working Paper Hicksian Surplus Measures of Individual Welfare Change When There is Price and Income Uncertainty, Vanderbilt University Department of Economics (2006) (2006)

2007

2. Intertemporal Social Evaluation
   Palgrave Macmillan
   See also Working Paper Intertemporal Social Evaluation, Centre interuniversitaire de recherche en économie quantitative, CIREQ (2005) View citations (3) (2005)

2002

3. Utilitarianism and the theory of justice
   Chapter 11 in Handbook of Social Choice and Welfare, 2002, vol. 1, pp 543-596 View citations (75)