GENERALIZED COST-ANALYSIS OF SCREENING PROGRAMS (2008)
Carmen Herrero, Juan D. Moreno-ternero, Valenciano Investigaciones Económicas, Primera Edición Abril, Mike Drummond, Marc Fleurbaey, ...
IVIE working papers offer in advance the results of economic research under way in order to encourage a discussion process before sending them to scientific journals for their final publication. *...
Le revenu équivalent-santé, un outil pour lanalyse des inégalités sociales de santé (2007)
Cet article suggère de replacer lanalyse des inégalités sociales de santé dans le cadre de lanalyse des inégalités de niveau de vie en général. Pour ce faire, il est proposé dutiliser...
Do irrelevant commodities matter? (2007)
Fleurbaey, Marc, Tadenuma, Koichi
We study how to evaluate allocations independently of individual preferences over unavailable commodities. We prove impossibility results suggesting that such evaluations encounter serious...
Le revenu équivalent-santé, un outil pour lanalyse des inégalités sociales de santé (2007)
Cet article suggère de replacer lanalyse des inégalités sociales de santé dans le cadre de lanalyse des inégalités de niveau de vie en général. Pour ce faire, il est proposé dutiliser...
Do irrelevant commodities matter? (2007)
Fleurbaey, Marc, Tadenuma, Koichi
We study how to evaluate allocations independently of individual preferences over unavailable commodities. We prove impossibility results suggesting that such evaluations encounter serious...
Sharing the Cost of a Public Good without Subsidies (2006)
FLEURBAEY, Marc, SPRUMONT, Yves
We study the construction of a social ordering function for the case of a public good financed by contributions from the population, and we extend the analysis of Maniquet and Sprumont (2004) to the...
Eliminer la pauvreté en France avec l’allocation personnelle par Alain Leroux (2006)
Fleurbaey, Marc; CATT, IDEP, Université De Pau Et Des Pays De L’Adour
Social Choice and Just Institutions:New Perspectives (2006)
It has become accepted that social choice is impossible in absence of interpersonal comparisons of well-being. This view is challenged here. Arrow obtained an impossibility theorem only by making...
Sharing the cost of a public good under nonnegativity constraints (2006)
Fleurbaey, Marc, Sprumont, Yves
We study the construction of a social ordering function for the case of a public good financed by contributions from the population, and we extend the analysis of Maniquet and Sprumont (2004) to the...
Social choice and the indexing dilemma (2006)
This paper distinguishes an index ordering and a social ordering function as a simple way to formalize the indexing problem in the social choice framework. Two main conclusions are derived. First,...
Compensation and responsibility (2006)
Fleurbaey, Marc, Maniquet, François
This a chapter for the Handbook of Social Choice and Welfare. It deals with the theory of fairness applied to situations when individuals are partly responsible for their characteristics.
Social Choice and Just Institutions:New Perspectives (2006)
It has become accepted that social choice is impossible in absence of interpersonal comparisons of well-being. This view is challenged here. Arrow obtained an impossibility theorem only by making...
Sharing the cost of a public good under nonnegativity constraints (2006)
Fleurbaey, Marc, Sprumont, Yves
We study the construction of a social ordering function for the case of a public good financed by contributions from the population, and we extend the analysis of Maniquet and Sprumont (2004) to the...
Social choice and the indexing dilemma (2006)
This paper distinguishes an index ordering and a social ordering function as a simple way to formalize the indexing problem in the social choice framework. Two main conclusions are derived. First,...
Compensation and responsibility (2006)
Fleurbaey, Marc, Maniquet, François
This a chapter for the Handbook of Social Choice and Welfare. It deals with the theory of fairness applied to situations when individuals are partly responsible for their characteristics.
Du choix social à la taxation optimale : les dépenses de santé (2005)
Fleurbaey, Marc; CATT, THEMA, IDEP
Le lien entre le choix social et la taxation optimale peut être resserré si les outils du choix social sont appliqués aux modèles pertinents pour la taxation optimale, et non plus seulement à...
Du choix social à la taxation optimale : les dépenses de santé (2005)
Fleurbaey, Marc; CATT, THEMA, IDEP
Le lien entre le choix social et la taxation optimale peut être resserré si les outils du choix social sont appliqués aux modèles pertinents pour la taxation optimale, et non plus seulement à...
The News of the Death of Welfare Economics is Greatly Exaggerated (2004)
Fleurbaey, Marc, Mongin, Philippe
Après qu'Arrow eut démontré son théorème d'impossibilité, les "fonctions de bien-être social de Bergson-Samuelson" (FBS) firent l'objet d'une controverse qui opposa les théoriciens du choix...
The News of the Death of Welfare Economics is Greatly Exaggerated (2004)
Fleurbaey, Marc, Mongin, Philippe
Après qu'Arrow eut démontré son théorème d'impossibilité, les "fonctions de bien-être social de Bergson-Samuelson" (FBS) firent l'objet d'une controverse qui opposa les théoriciens du choix...
Du choix social à la taxation optimale : les dépenses de santé (2002)
Le lien entre le choix social et la taxation optimale peut être resserré si les outils du choix social sont appliqués aux modèles pertinents pour la taxation optimale, et non plus seulement à...
On the Informational Basis of Social Choice (1999)
This paper analyzes different ways of defining the information on which social judgments are made. 1 Introduction The notion of informational basis has been coined by Sen (1970) in order to describe...
1 ⊺ Acknowledgement: We are grateful to Professors Kenneth Arrow, Walter Bossert, (1999)
Reiko Gotoh, Kotaro Suzumura, Naoki Yoshihara, Rajat Deb, Marc Fleurbaey, Frederic Gaspart, ...
Abstract: Following the viewpoint of pure procedural justice, we analyze a social decision procedure for choosing fair allocation rules in production economies, which is formulated as an extended...
How much health should we have and how should it be distributed? This paper studies how to define social objectives for the allocation of health and income in a setting where individuals may differ...
Two Criteria for Social Decisions
This paper studies the ethical underpinnings of two social criteria which are prominent in the literature dealing with the problem of evaluating allocations of several consumption goods in a...
Critical Levels and the (Reverse) Repugnant Conclusion
Charles Blackorby, Walter Bossert, David Donaldson,, Marc Fleurbaey
It is well-known that there is a trade-off regarding the properties of population principles that are used to make social evaluations when the number of people in the society under consideration may...
In a model where agents have unequal skills and heterogeneous preferences about consumption goods and leisure, this paper studies how to combine linear commodity taxes and non-linear income tax. It...
International Comparisons of Living Standards by Equivalent Incomes
Marc Fleurbaey, Guillaume Gaulier
We propose a measure of living standards for international comparisons. It is based on GDP per capita, in PPP, and incorporates corrections for international flows of income, labour, risk of...
La péréquation territoriale en question
Historiquement, les services publics sont dans de nombreux pays assurés par un monopole réglementé par la tutelle publique. La structure particulière des coûts comme la présence d'économies...
Do Irrelevant Commodities Matter?
Marc Fleurbaey, Koichi Tadenuma
We study the possibility of making social evaluations independently of individual preferences over non-consumed commodities. This is related to the well-known problem of performing international...
The Champions of GDP per Head and Those of Standard of Living
Marc Fleurbaey, Guillaume Gaulier
GDP per inhabitant is the most commonly used indicator for making international comparisons between standards of living. Yet it ignores the non-monetary components which may differ widely from one...
To Envy or to be Envied? Refinements of No-Envy fot the Compensation Problem
wealth distribution; income distribution; endogenous labor supply; transitional dynamics.
Welfare Comparisons of Income Distributions and Family Size
Marc Fleurbaey, Cyrille HagnerŽ, Alain Trannoy
We investigate the problem of how to make welfare comparisons of income distributions hen a population allocation problem (how a population should be optimally divided over families for given...
Welfare Comparisons of Income Distributions
This paper analyzes social situations in the context of risk. A new argument is proposed in order to defend the ex-post approach against DiamondÕs (1967) famous critique of HarsanyiÕs (1955)...
Do Irrelevant Commodities Matter?
Marc Fleurbaey, Koichi Tadenuma
We study how to evaluate allocations independently of individual preferences over unavailable commodities. We prove impossibility results that suggest that such evaluations encounter serious...
Sharing the Cost of a Public Good without Subsidies
FLEURBAEY, Marc, SPRUMONT, Yves
We study the construction of a social ordering function for the case of a public good financed by contributions from the population, and we extend the analysis of Maniquet and Sprumont (2004) to the...
In a model where agents have unequal skills and heterogeneous preferences about consumption goods and leisure, this paper studies how to combine linear commodity taxes and non-linear income tax. It...
Help the Low Skilled or Let the Hardworking Thrive? A Study of Fairness in Optimal Income Taxation
MARC FLEURBAEY, FRANÇOIS MANIQUET
In a model where agents have unequal wages and heterogeneous preferences, we study the optimal redistribution via an income tax, when the social objective is based on a combination of efficiency and...
Selfishness, altruism and normative principles in the economic analysis of social transfers
Blanchet, Didier, Fleurbaey, Marc, S. Kolm, Jean Mercier Ythier
This chapter examines the role of altruistic motives in the economic analysis of public social transfers, both from a positive and from a normative point of view. The positive question is to know...
MARC FLEURBAEY, FRANÇOIS MANIQUET
In a model where agents have unequal skills and heterogeneous preferences over consumption and leisure, we look for the optimal tax on the basis of efficiency and fairness principles and under...
Education, Distributive Justice and Adverse Selection
Fleurbaey, Marc, Gary-Bobo, Robert J., Maguain, Denis
We consider a model of education planning in an economy in which agents differ in their costs of acquiring education. The agents' cost parameter, called "talent," is not observed. The Principal is...
Social Welfare, Priority to the Worst-Off And the Dimensions of Individual Well-Being
When well-being is one-dimensional, the key ethical issue for the definition of social welfare is the degree of inequality aversion, which can be discussed with variants of the Pigou-Dalton transfer...
Redistribution and compensation (*)
Marc Fleurbaey, Walter Bossert
In a model where individual incomes depend on the agents' characteristics, we provide characterizations of several redistribution mechanisms. These mechanisms are designed to eliminate the effects of...
Cooperative production with unequal skills: The solidarity approach to compensation
Marc Fleurbaey, Francois Maniquet
We consider a simple production model and we assume that agents have unequal production skills which can in no way be attributed to their responsibility. We study how it is possible, if at all, to...
Equitable insurance premium schemes
Marc Fleurbaey, Walter Bossert
We analyze the equity properties of insurance premium schemes where agents are partitioned into groups with different average accident probabilities and each individual has to pay a premium according...
Fair social orderings when agents have unequal production skills
Marc Fleurbaey, François Maniquet
We develop an approach which escapes Arrow’s impossibility by relying on information about agents’ indifference curves instead of utilities. In a model where agents have unequal production skills...
Responsibility, talent, and compensation: A second-best analysis
Dirk Van De Gaer, Marc Fleurbaey, Walter Bossert
This paper examines how the first-best models of compensation based on the agents' talents and responsibilities analyzed in some recent contributions can be extended to a second-best context. A few...
The Pazner-Schmeidler social ordering: A defense
It is shown that the Pazner-Schmeidler social ordering appears as a very natural solution to the problem of defining social preferences over distributions of divisible goods. The paper analyses...
Critical levels and the (reverse) repugnant conclusion
Charles Blackorby, Walter Bossert, David Donaldson, Marc Fleurbaey
population ethics, repugnant conclusion, critical levels, D63 ,
The News of the Death of Welfare Economics is Greatly Exaggerated
Marc Fleurbaey, Philippe Mongin
Après qu'Arrow eut démontré son théorème d'impossibilité, les "fonctions de bien-être social de Bergson-Samuelson" (FBS) firent l'objet d'une controverse qui opposa les théoriciens du choix...
The News of the Death of Welfare Economics is Greatly Exaggerated
Marc Fleurbaey, Philippe Mongin
Après qu'Arrow eut démontré son théorème d'impossibilité, les "fonctions de bien-être social de Bergson-Samuelson" (FBS) firent l'objet d'une controverse qui opposa les théoriciens du choix...
Do irrelevant commodities matter?
Marc Fleurbaey, Koichi Tadenuma
We study how to evaluate allocations independently of individual preferences over unavailable commodities. We prove impossibility results suggesting that such evaluations encounter serious...
Le revenu équivalent-santé, un outil pour l’analyse des inégalités sociales de santé
Cet article suggère de replacer l’analyse des inégalités sociales de santé dans le cadre de l’analyse des inégalités de niveau de vie en général. Pour ce faire, il est proposé...
Compensation and responsibility
Marc Fleurbaey, François Maniquet
This a chapter for the Handbook of Social Choice and Welfare. It deals with the theory of fairness applied to situations when individuals are partly responsible for their characteristics.
Social choice and the indexing dilemma
This paper distinguishes an index ordering and a social ordering function as a simple way to formalize the indexing problem in the social choice framework. Two main conclusions are derived. First,...
Sharing the cost of a public good under nonnegativity constraints
We study the construction of a social ordering function for the case of a public good financed by contributions from the population, and we extend the analysis of Maniquet and Sprumont (2004) to the...
Social Choice and Just Institutions:New Perspectives
It has become accepted that social choice is impossible in absence of interpersonal comparisons of well-being. This view is challenged here. Arrow obtained an impossibility theorem only by making...
Compensation and responsibility
Marc Fleurbaey, François Maniquet
This a chapter for the Handbook of Social Choice and Welfare. It deals with the theory of fairness applied to situations when individuals are partly responsible for their characteristics.
Social choice and the indexing dilemma
This paper distinguishes an index ordering and a social ordering function as a simple way to formalize the indexing problem in the social choice framework. Two main conclusions are derived. First,...
Sharing the cost of a public good under nonnegativity constraints
We study the construction of a social ordering function for the case of a public good financed by contributions from the population, and we extend the analysis of Maniquet and Sprumont (2004) to the...
Social Choice and Just Institutions:New Perspectives
It has become accepted that social choice is impossible in absence of interpersonal comparisons of well-being. This view is challenged here. Arrow obtained an impossibility theorem only by making...
The News of the Death of Welfare Economics is Greatly Exaggerated
Marc Fleurbaey, Philippe Mongin
Après qu'Arrow eut démontré son théorème d'impossibilité, les "fonctions de bien-être social de Bergson-Samuelson" (FBS) firent l'objet d'une controverse qui opposa les théoriciens du choix...
Do irrelevant commodities matter?
Marc Fleurbaey, Koichi Tadenuma
We study how to evaluate allocations independently of individual preferences over unavailable commodities. We prove impossibility results suggesting that such evaluations encounter serious...
Le revenu équivalent-santé, un outil pour l’analyse des inégalités sociales de santé
Cet article suggère de replacer l’analyse des inégalités sociales de santé dans le cadre de l’analyse des inégalités de niveau de vie en général. Pour ce faire, il est proposé...
Unfair inequalities in health and health care
FLEURBAEY, Marc, SCHOKKAERT, Erik
Inequalities in health and health care are caused by different factors. Measuring "unfair"inequalities implies that a distinction is introduced between causal variables leading toethically legitimate...
Marc Fleurbaey, Koichi Tadenuma
We propose the concept of a universal social ordering, defined on the set of pairs of an allocation and a preference profile of any finite population. It is meant to unify evaluations and comparisons...
Sharing the Cost of a Public Good without Subsidies
We study the construction of a social ordering function for the case of a public good financed by contributions from the population. We extend the analysis of Maniquet and Sprumont (2004) to the case...
Unfair inequalities in health and health care
Fleurbaey, Marc, Schokkaert, Erik
Inequalities in health and health care are caused by different factors. Measuring "unfair" inequalities implies that a distinction is introduced between causal variables leading to ethically...
Optimal income taxation: and ordinal approach.
FLEURBAEY, Marc, MANIQUET, Franois
In a model where agents have unequal production skills and different preferences, we build social welfare functions which rely only on ordinal non-comparable information on individual preferences....
Informational Requirements for Social Choice in Economic Environments
Fleurbaey, Marc, Suzumura, Kotaro, Tadenuma, Koichi
Arrow's celebrated theorem shows that the aggregation of individuals' preferences into a social ordering cannot make the ranking of any pair of alternatives depend only on individuals' preferences...
Arrovian Aggregation in Economic Environments: How Much Should We Know About Indifference Surfaces?
Fleurbaey, Marc, Suzumura, Kotaro, Tadenuma, Koichi
Arrow's celebrated theorem of social choice shows that the aggregation of individual preferences into a social ordering cannot make the ranking of any pair of alternatives depend only on individual...
The Informational Basis of the Theory of Fair Allocation
Fleurbaey, Marc, Suzumura, Kotaro, Tadenuma, Koichi
The theory of fair allocation is often favourably contrasted with the social choice theory in the search for escape routes from Arrow's impossibility theorem. Its success is commonly attributed to...
Fleurbaey, Marc, Tadenuma, Koichi
We propose the concept of a universal social ordering, defined on the set of pairs of an allocation and a preference profile of any finite population. It is meant to unify evaluations and comparisons...
Do Irrelevant Commodities Matter?
Fleurbaey, Marc, Tadenuma, Koichi
We study the possibility of making social evaluations of allocations independently of individuals' preferences over unavailable commodities. This is related to the well-known problem of performing...
Fleurbaey, Marc, Tadenuma, Koichi
We propose the concept of a universal social ordering, defined on the set of pairs of an allocation and a preference profile of any finite population. It is meant to unify evaluations and comparisons...
The Informational Basis of the Theory of Fair Allocation
Fleurbaey, Marc, Suzumura, Kotaro, Tadenuma, Koichi
The theory of fair allocation is often favourably contrasted with the social choice theory in the search for escape routes from Arrow's impossibility theorem. Its success is commonly attributed to...
Arrovian Aggregation in Economic Environments: How Much Should We Know About Indifference Surfaces?
Fleurbaey, Marc, Suzumura, Kotaro, Tadenuma, Koichi
Arrow's celebrated theorem of social choice shows that the aggregation of individual preferences into a social ordering cannot make the ranking of any pair of alternatives depend only on individual...
Informational Requirements for Social Choice in Economic Environments
Fleurbaey, Marc, Suzumura, Kotaro, Tadenuma, Koichi
Arrow's celebrated theorem shows that the aggregation of individuals' preferences into a social ordering cannot make the ranking of any pair of alternatives depend only on individuals' preferences...
Justice, Political Liberalism, and Utilitarianism
Fleurbaey,Marc, Salles,Maurice, Weymark,John A.
The utilitarian economist and Nobel Laureate, John Harsanyi and the liberal egalitarian philosopher, John Rawls were two of the most eminent scholars writing on problems of social justice in the last...
Ex ante versus ex post equality of opportunity
We study the difference between the ex post and the ex ante perspectives in equality of opportunity (EOp), and the possibility of a clash between them. We argue that ex ante EOp is a potential trap...
International Comparisons of Living Standards by Equivalent Incomes
Marc Fleurbaey, Guillaume Gaulier
We propose a measure of living standards for international comparisons. Based on GDP per capita, the measure incorporates corrections for international flows of income, labor, risk of unemployment,...
Two variants of Harsanyi's aggregation theorem
This paper presents two variants of Harsanyi's (1955) utilitarian theorem in which the assumption that the social criterion is an expected value of social welfare is replaced by statewise dominance....
Marc Fleurbaey, Cyrille Hagneré, Alain Trannoy
This paper examines a reform of the French welfare system. More precisely, it is a question of granting a decreasing benefit according to earned income. The modulation of this benefit according to...