CURRICULUM VITAE January 11, 2018 Walter Bossert Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Economie Quantitative (CIREQ) P.O. Box 6128, Station Downtown Montreal QC H3C 3J7 Canada walter.bossert@videotron.ca http://pages.videotron.com/wbossert/ Employment Experience 04/2000 present: Professor of Economics, University of Montreal. 07/1997 03/2000: Professor of Economic Theory, University of Nottingham. 07/1991 06/1997: Associate Professor of Economics, University of Waterloo. 07/1989 06/1991: Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics, University of British Columbia. 09/1987 05/1989: Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Karlsruhe. 01/1986 07/1986: Lecturer in Economics, University of Karlsruhe. University Degrees 07/1988: Ph.D. in Economics, University of Karlsruhe. 08/1987: M.A. in Economics, University of British Columbia. 12/1985: B.Sc. in Industrial Engineering, University of Karlsruhe. Sabbatical Leaves 06/2004 07/2005: Bocconi University. 01/2000 05/2000: Rice University. 12/1995 05/1996: University of Sydney. 06/1995 11/1995: University of British Columbia. 1
Awards and Honors Recipient of the 2004 John Rae Prize, awarded every two years by the Canadian Economic Association to recognize research excellence in the recent past. Listed in Who s Who in Economics, Fourth Edition, M. Blaug and H. Vane (eds.), Edward Elgar Publishers, 2003. Service in Professional Organizations Council Member, Society for Social Choice and Welfare, 2014 2019; 2006 2011; 1998 2003. Member of the research grants adjudication committee, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, 2003. Major Research Grants Received 1. Walter Bossert, Lars Ehlers, Sidartha Gordon, Vikram Manjunath and Yves Sprumont, Foundations of mechanisms under non-probabilistic uncertainty and effectiveness of coalitions in diverse societies, Fonds de Recherche sur la Societe et la Culture, Quebec, 2012 2016. 2. Walter Bossert, Lars Ehlers, Sidartha Gordon and Yves Sprumont, Foundations of resource allocation mechanisms, Fonds de Recherche sur la Societe et la Culture, Quebec, 2008 2012. 3. Walter Bossert and Kotaro Suzumura, Consistency in individual and collective choice, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, 2008 2011. 4. Walter Bossert, Yves Sprumont and Kotaro Suzumura, Equity and rationality in intergenerational resource-allocation problems, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, 2004 2008. 5. Walter Bossert and Yves Sprumont, Implications of theories of collective decision-making in economies with private and public goods, Fonds pour la Formation de Chercheurs et l Aide a la Recherche, Quebec, 2001 2004. 6. Walter Bossert, Yves Sprumont and Kotaro Suzumura, Individual and collective rationality, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, 2001 2004. 7. Charles Blackorby, Walter Bossert and David Donaldson, Altruism, discounting and number-sensitive population principles, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, 2000 2003. 8. Salvador Barberà and Walter Bossert, Ranking sets of alternatives in individual and social decision-making, British Council/Spanish Ministry of Culture and Education Acciones Integradas, 1999 2001. 2
9. Charles Blackorby, Walter Bossert and David Donaldson, Ethical aspects of variable-population allocation problems, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, 1995 1999. 10. Charles Blackorby, Walter Bossert and David Donaldson, Intertemporal policy evaluation with a variable population, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, 1992 1995. Editorial Responsibilities Member of the editorial board, Mathematical Social Sciences, since 2007. Member of the editorial board, Social Choice and Welfare, since 1997. Member of the editorial board, Economics and Philosophy, 2006 2014. Refereeing for Journals Aequationes Mathematicae; American Economic Journal: Microeconomics; American Economic Review; Annals of Operations Research; Australasian Journal of Philosophy; Canadian Journal of Economics; Econometrica; Economica; Economic Design; Economic Inquiry; Economic Journal; Economic Record; Economic Theory; Economics and Philosophy; Economics Bulletin; Economics Letters; European Journal of Political Economy; Games and Economic Behavior; International Economic Review; International Game Theory Review; International Journal of Game Theory; International Tax and Public Finance; Journal of Applied Social Sciences Studies; Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization; Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control; Journal of Economic Inequality; Journal of Economics; Journal of Economic Theory; Journal of Income Distribution; Journal of Mathematical Economics; Journal of Mathematical Psychology; Journal of Political Economy; Journal of Population Economics; Journal of Public Economics; Journal of Public Economic Theory; Journal of Theoretical Politics; Mathematical Social Sciences; Metron; Order; Philosophical Papers; Philosophical Quarterly; Politics, Philosophy and Economics; Review of Economic Studies; Review of Income and Wealth; Sankhyā; Scandinavian Journal of Economics; Social Choice and Welfare; Southern Economic Journal; Spanish Economic Review; Statistical Papers; Theoretical Economics; Theory and Decision. Refereeing for Publishers Addison-Wesley; Cambridge University Press; Kluwer Academic Publishers; Oxford University Press; Routledge; Sage. 3
Refereeing for Grant-Awarding Agencies Economic and Social Research Council (UK); Israel Science Foundation; National Science Foundation (USA); Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (Canada); Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research; Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (Canada); UBC Hampton Fund Research Grants Program (Canada). Conference Organization 2018: Member of the Program Committee, Workshop of the Central European Program in Economic Theory, Udine, June; Member of the Program Committee, Meeting of the Society for Social Choice and Welfare, Seoul, June. 2017: Member of the Program Committee, Workshop of the Central European Program in Economic Theory, Udine, June. 2016: Member of the Program Committee, Workshop of the Central European Program in Economic Theory, Udine, June. 2015: Member of the Program Committee, Workshop of the Central European Program in Economic Theory, Udine, June. 2014: Member of the Program Committee, Workshop of the Central European Program in Economic Theory, Udine, June; Member of the Organizing Committee, CIREQ Montreal Matching Conference, Montreal, March. 2013: Member of the Program Committee, Workshop of the Central European Program in Economic Theory, Udine, June. 2012: Member of the Program Committee, Workshop of the Central European Program in Economic Theory, Udine, May/June. 2011: Member of the Scientific Committee, International Conference on Logic, Game Theory and Social Choice, Bucharest, July; Member of the Program Committee, Society for Economic Design Conference, Montreal, June. 2006: Co-Organizer, CIREQ Montreal Workshop on Intergenerational Resource Allocation, April. 2005: Member of the Program Committee, IEA Roundtable Meeting on Intergenerational Equity, Hakone, March. 2004: Member of the Program Committee, Meeting of the Society for Social Choice and Welfare, Osaka, July; Member of the Program Committee, COE/RES Symposium on Social Choice Theory, Tokyo, July. 2001: Member of the Scientific Committee, International Conference on the Analysis and Measurement of Freedom, Palermo, September; Co-Organizer, Canadian Economic Theory Conference, Montreal, June; Member of the Program Committee, International Conference on Logic, Game Theory and Social Choice, St. Petersburg, June. 2000: Member of the Program Committee, Meeting of the Society for Social Choice and Welfare, Alicante, June/July. 4
1999: Member of the Program Committee, International Conference on Logic, Game Theory and Social Choice, Tilburg, May. 1998: Member of the Program Committee, Meeting of the Society for Social Choice and Welfare, Vancouver, July. Presentations at Conferences 2017: New Scholarship on Population Ethics, Durham, NC, April; Meeting of the Philosophy, Politics and Economics Society, New Orleans, March. 2016: Meeting of the Society for Social Choice and Welfare, Lund, June; Workshop on Economic Insecurity: Forging an Agenda for Measurement and Analysis, New York, March. 2015: Workshop of the Central European Program in Economic Theory, Udine, June; IDGP 2015 Workshop on Institutions, Decisions and Governmental Practices, Barcelona, June; Princeton Workshop on Public Economics, Princeton, May. 2014: Workshop of the Central European Program in Economic Theory, Udine, June; Meeting of the Society for Social Choice and Welfare, Boston, June. 2013: Workshop of the Central European Program in Economic Theory, Udine, June. 2012: Urrutia Elejalde Summer School on Economics and Philosophy, San Sebastian, July; Workshop of the Central European Program in Economic Theory, Udine, June; Conference on Equality and Welfare, Kunitachi, March. 2011: Workshop on Choice and Rationality, London, July; Votes and Incentives: The Design of Institutions, Workshop in Celebration of Salvador Barberà s 65th Birthday, Barcelona, June; Workshop of the Central European Program in Economic Theory, Udine, June. 2010: Meeting of the Southern Economic Association, Atlanta, November; Condorcet Lecture, Meeting of the Society for Social Choice and Welfare, Moscow, July; Workshop of the Central European Program in Economic Theory, Udine, June. 2009: Logic, Game Theory, and Social Choice, Tsukuba, August; Urrutia Elejalde Summer School on Economics and Philosophy, San Sebastian, July; Workshop of the Central European Program in Economic Theory, Udine, June; Conference on Environmental and Resource Economics, Toulouse, June; New Developments in Social Choice and Welfare Theories: A Tribute to Maurice Salles, Caen, June; Workshop on Income Distribution, Milan, April. 2008: Workshop on Social Choice and Poverty, Siena, December; Workshop on Social Decisions, Malaga, November; International Symposium on Choice, Rationality and Intergenerational Equity, Waseda University, September; Maastricht University Jubilee Workshop on Economic Design and Collective Choices, April. 2007: Non-Welfaristic Welfare Economics: Capability, Choice and Rights, Riverside, October; Condorcet Lectures and Seminar on Social Choice Theory and Welfare Economics, Caen, October. 5
2006: Meeting of the Society for Social Choice and Welfare, Istanbul, July; Workshop on Intergenerational Resource Allocation, Montreal, April; International Conference on Rational Choice, Individual Rights, and Non-Welfaristic Normative Economics, Kunitachi, March. 2005: Polarization and Conflict Conference, Milan, December; Utilitarianism 2005 (International Society for Utilitarian Studies), Hanover, August; Workshop of the Central European Program in Economic Theory, Udine, June; Workshop on Emerging Themes in the Analysis of Inequality, Bath, June; Canadian Economic Theory Conference, Vancouver, May; IEA Roundtable Meeting on Intergenerational Equity, Hakone, March. 2004: Meeting of the Society for Social Choice and Welfare, Osaka, July; Workshop on Economic Decisions, Pamplona, June; Conference of the European Society for Population Economics, Bergen, June; Conference on Welfarist and Non-Welfarist Approaches to Public Economics, Gent, March. 2003: Workshop on Game Theory and Ethics, Evanston, November; United Nations University and World Institute for Development Economics Research Conference on Inequality, Poverty and Human Well-Being, Helsinki, May; Canadian Economic Theory Conference, Vancouver, May. 2002: Meeting of the Society for Social Choice and Welfare, Pasadena, July; Canadian Economic Theory Conference, Toronto, May. 2001: International Symposium on Intergenerational Equity, Tokyo, December; International Conference on the Analysis and Measurement of Freedom, Palermo, September; International Workshop on Intergenerational Equity, Tokyo, March. 2000: Meeting of the Society for Social Choice and Welfare, Alicante, June; Utilitarianism 2000 (International Society for Utilitarian Studies), Winston-Salem, March. 1999: British Society for the Philosophy of Science Summer Conference, Nottingham, July; Conference on Axiomatic Resource Allocation Theory, Namur, July. 1998: Workshop on Social Choice and Distributive Justice (Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences), Vancouver, July; Meeting of the Society for Social Choice and Welfare, Vancouver, July; North American Summer Meeting of the Econometric Society, Montreal, June. 1997: Seminar on Individual Decisions and Social Choice, Osnabrück, August; Canadian Economic Theory Conference, Toronto, May; Utilitarianism Reconsidered (International Society for Utilitarian Studies), New Orleans, March. 1996: Meeting of the Society for Social Choice and Welfare, Maastricht, June; Australian Economic Theory Workshop, Bundoora, February. 1995: Workshop on Ethics and Economics of Liberty, Cergy-Pontoise, June; Meeting of the Canadian Public Economics Study Group, Waterloo, May. 1994: Meeting of the Society for Social Choice and Welfare, Rochester, July; Canadian Economic Theory Conference, Toronto, May; North American Meeting of the Econometric Society, Boston, January. 6
1993: Latin American Meeting of the Econometric Society, Tucumán, August; Canadian Economic Theory Conference, Vancouver, May. 1992: Buffalo/Cornell/Rochester Economic Theory Conference, Buffalo, November; Meeting of the Society for Social Choice and Welfare, Caen, June; Canadian Economic Theory Conference, Montreal, June. 1991: Meeting of the Canadian Economics Association, Kingston, June; Canadian Economic Theory Conference, Toronto, May. 1990: Meeting of the Canadian Economics Association, Victoria, June. 1989: Meeting of the Canadian Economics Association, Quebec, June; Micromodels 89 (Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences), Liblice, March; European Winter Meeting of the Econometric Society, Visegrad, January. 1988: Symposium on Operations Research, Paderborn, September; European Meeting of the Econometric Society, Bologna, September. Research Seminars 2017: Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research, December. 2016: University of Oregon, April. 2015: University of Gent, September; Università degli Studi di Udine, June. 2014: Southern Methodist University, November; Waseda University, September; Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, April; University of Maastricht, April. 2013: University of Guelph, November; Université du Luxembourg, October; Università degli Studi di Udine, October; Universidad Pablo de Olavide, February; Universidad del País Vasco, February; Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, February. 2012: University of Maastricht, April. 2011: Sant Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, November. 2009: University of Guelph, September; Waseda University, August; Waseda University, March. 2008: Universidad Pablo de Olavide, December; Université Catholique de Louvain, November; University of California at Riverside, June; University of British Columbia, April. 2007: Brown University, November; University of Oslo, March. 2006: Università di Torino, October; University of Auckland, May; Victoria University of Wellington, May; Seoul National University, March. 2005: University of Oregon, November; University of Maastricht, November; Northern Illinois University, September; Université de Namur, June; Università Cattolica, Milano, April; Università di Bologna, February; Université de Genève, February; Université de Caen, January. 2004: University of Warwick, November; University of Nottingham, November; Queen Mary University of London, November; University of Auckland, April. 7
2003: Università Bocconi, October; Osaka University, July; Hitotsubashi University, July; DIW Berlin, June. 2002: University of Rochester, November; Hitotsubashi University, October; Otaru University, October; University of Sydney, June; Università di Bari, May; Queen s University, February. 2001: York University, November; University of Quebec at Montreal, September; University of British Columbia, August; Harvard University, April. 2000: Tohoku University, December; Hitotsubashi University, December; Laval University, November; State University of New York at Albany, October; University of Maastricht, June; Georgia State University, May; Vanderbilt University, April; Tulane University, April; Southern Methodist University, April; Rice University, January. 1999: Università di Bologna, October; University of Birmingham, October; Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, May; University of Montreal, May; University of Maynooth, April; Paris Ethics Seminar, April. 1998: University of Southampton, October; University of Manchester, May; University of Maastricht, March; Université de Caen, March; University of Exeter, January; Keele University, January. 1997: University of Warwick, November; University of York, November; University of Essex, November; University of Birmingham, October; University of British Columbia, September. 1996: McGill University, October; University of Guelph, September; Australian National University, May; University of Technology, Sydney, April; Macquarie University, March; University of New South Wales, March; University of Melbourne, March; University of Sydney, February. 1995: University of British Columbia, November; Simon Fraser University, October; University of British Columbia, October; State University of New York at Buffalo, March; University of Rochester, March. 1994: University of Western Ontario, October; Universität Karlsruhe, May; Universität Ulm, May; University of Windsor, March. 1993: University of British Columbia, April. 1992: Brock University, October; McMaster University, September; University of California at Riverside, May. 1991: York University, October; University of Guelph, October; University of Waterloo, October. 1989: McGill University, November; University of British Columbia, November; University of Waterloo, June; Tilburg University, March. 1988: University of British Columbia, April. 8
Published or Forthcoming Monographs 1. Walter Bossert and Kotaro Suzumura, Consistency, choice, and rationality, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 2010. 2. Charles Blackorby, Walter Bossert and David Donaldson, Population issues in social choice theory, welfare economics, and ethics, Cambridge University Press, New York, 2005. 3. Walter Bossert and Frank Stehling, Theorie kollektiver Entscheidungen: Eine Einführung, Springer, Heidelberg, 1990. 4. Walter Bossert, On some variable population size issues in welfare economics, Athenäum, Frankfurt, 1989. Published or Forthcoming Research Papers 1. Walter Bossert and Conchita D Ambrosio, Intertemporal material deprivation: a proposal and an application to EU countries, in: I. Dasgupta and M. Mitra (eds.), Deprivation, Inequality and Polarization: Essays in Honour of Satya Ranjan Chakravarty, Springer, Heidelberg, forthcoming. 2. Walter Bossert, Anonymous welfarism, critical-level principles, and the repugnant and sadistic conclusions, in: G. Arrhenius and K. Bykvist, Oxford Handbook of Population Ethics, Oxford University Press, Oxford, forthcoming. 3. Walter Bossert, Burak Can and Conchita D Ambrosio, A head-count measure of rank mobility and its directional decomposition, Economica, forthcoming. 4. Walter Bossert, Suzumura-consistent relations: an overview, International Journal of Economic Theory, forthcoming. 5. Nick Baigent and Walter Bossert, An interview with David Donaldson, in: M. Fleurbaey and M. Salles (eds.), Conversations with Pioneers in Social Choice Theory (provisional title), Springer, Heidelberg, forthcoming. 6. Walter Bossert and Kotaro Suzumura, The greatest unhappiness of the least number, Social Choice and Welfare 47 (2016), 187 205. Republished in a Special Issue in honor of John Roemer, Social Choice and Welfare 49 (2017), 637 655. 7. Walter Bossert, Burak Can and Conchita D Ambrosio, Measuring rank mobility with variable population size, Social Choice and Welfare 46 (2016), 917 931. 8. Walter Bossert and Kotaro Suzumura, Expected utility without full transitivity, Social Choice and Welfare 45 (2015), 707 722. 9
9. Walter Bossert and Kotaro Suzumura, Multi-profile intertemporal social choice: a survey, in: C. Binder, G. Codognato, M. Teschl and Y. Xu (eds.), Individual and Collective Choice and Social Welfare: Essays in Honor of Nick Baigent, Springer, Heidelberg (2015), 109 126. 10. Walter Bossert and Marc Fleurbaey, An interview with Kotaro Suzumura, Social Choice and Welfare 44 (2015), 179 208. 11. Walter Bossert and Hans Peters, Single-basined choice, Journal of Mathematical Economics 52 (2014), 162 168. 12. Walter Bossert and Yves Sprumont, Strategy-proof preference aggregation: possibilities and characterizations, Games and Economic Behavior 85 (2014), 109 126. 13. Samir Okasha, John A. Weymark and Walter Bossert, Inclusive fitness maximization: an axiomatic approach, Journal of Theoretical Biology 350 (2014), 24 31. 14. Walter Bossert, Lidia Ceriani, Satya R. Chakravarty and Conchita D Ambrosio, Intertemporal Material Deprivation, in: G. Betti and A. Lemmi (eds.), Poverty and Social Exclusion, Routledge, London (2014), 128 142. 15. Walter Bossert and Conchita D Ambrosio, Proximity-sensitive individual deprivation measures, Economics Letters 122 (2014), 125 128. 16. Walter Bossert and Yves Sprumont, Every choice function is backwardsinduction rationalizable, Econometrica 81 (2013), 2521 2534. 17. Walter Bossert, Chloe X. Qi and John A. Weymark, Measuring group fitness in a biological hierarchy: an axiomatic social choice approach, Economics and Philosophy 29 (2013), 301 323. 18. Walter Bossert, Total utilitarianism, in: J.E. Crimmins (ed.), The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Utilitarianism, Bloomsbury Academic, New York (2013), 551 552. 19. Walter Bossert, Population, in: J.E. Crimmins (ed.), The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Utilitarianism, Bloomsbury Academic, New York (2013), 432 433. 20. Walter Bossert, Critical-level utilitarianism, in: J.E. Crimmins (ed.), The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Utilitarianism, Bloomsbury Academic, New York (2013), 103 104. 21. Walter Bossert and Conchita D Ambrosio, Measuring economic insecurity, International Economic Review 54 (2013), 1017 1030. 22. Walter Bossert and Hans Peters, Single-plateaued choice, Mathematical Social Sciences 66 (2013), 134 139. 10
23. Walter Bossert, Satya R. Chakravarty and Conchita D Ambrosio, Multidimensional poverty and material deprivation with discrete data, Review of Income and Wealth 59 (2013), 29 43. 24. Walter Bossert, Chloe X. Qi and John A. Weymark, Extensive social choice and the measurement of group fitness in biological hierarchies, Biology and Philosophy 28 (2013), 75 98. 25. Walter Bossert and Kotaro Suzumura, Product filters, acyclicity and Suzumura consistency, Mathematical Social Sciences 64 (2012), 258 262. 26. Walter Bossert and Kotaro Suzumura, Quasi-transitive and Suzumura consistent relations, Social Choice and Welfare 39 (2012), 323 334. 27. Walter Bossert, Satya R. Chakravarty and Conchita D Ambrosio, Poverty and time, Journal of Economic Inequality 10 (2012), 145 162. 28. Walter Bossert and Kotaro Suzumura, Revealed preference and choice under uncertainty, SERIEs Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 3 (2012), 247 258. 29. Walter Bossert and Kotaro Suzumura, Rationality, external norms, and the epistemic value of menus, Social Choice and Welfare 37 (2011), 729 741. 30. Walter Bossert, Conchita D Ambrosio and Eliana La Ferrara, A generalized index of fractionalization, Economica 78 (2011), 723 750. 31. Walter Bossert and Kotaro Suzumura, Multi-profile intergenerational social choice, Social Choice and Welfare 37 (2011), 493 509. 32. Geir B. Asheim, Walter Bossert, Yves Sprumont and Kotaro Suzumura, Infinite-horizon choice functions, Economic Theory 43 (2010), 1 21. 33. Walter Bossert and Hans Peters, Single-peaked choice, Economic Theory 41 (2009), 213 230. 34. Walter Bossert, Matthew J. Ryan and Arkadii Slinko, Orders on subsets rationalised by abstract convex geometries, Order 26 (2009), 237 244. 35. Walter Bossert and Kotaro Suzumura, External norms and rationality of choice, Economics and Philosophy 25 (2009), 139 152. 36. Walter Bossert and Yves Sprumont, Non-deteriorating choice, Economica 76 (2009), 337 363. 37. Charles Blackorby, Walter Bossert and David Donaldson, Population ethics, in: P. Anand, P.K. Pattanaik and C. Puppe (eds.), Handbook of Rational and Social Choice, Oxford University Press, Oxford (2009), 483 500. 11
38. Walter Bossert and Kotaro Suzumura, Rational choice on general domains, in: K. Basu and R. Kanbur (eds.), Arguments for a Better World: Essays in Honor of Amartya Sen, Vol. I: Ethics, Welfare, and Measurement, Oxford University Press, Oxford (2009), 103 135. 39. Walter Bossert and William Schworm, A class of two-group polarization measures, Journal of Public Economic Theory 10 (2008), 1169 1187. 40. Walter Bossert, Suzumura consistency, in: P.K. Pattanaik, K. Tadenuma, Y. Xu and N. Yoshihara (eds.), Rational Choice and Social Welfare: Theory and Applications, Springer, Berlin (2008), 159 179. 41. Walter Bossert and John A. Weymark, Social choice (new developments), in: S. Durlauf and L. Blume (eds.), The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, Second Edition, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke (2008), 594 603. 42. Walter Bossert and Kotaro Suzumura, A characterization of consistent collective choice rules, Journal of Economic Theory 138 (2008), 311 320; Erratum in 140 (2008), 355. 43. Walter Bossert and Kotaro Suzumura, Non-deteriorating choice without full transitivity, Analyse & Kritik 29 (2007), 163 187. 44. Walter Bossert and Kotaro Suzumura, Domain closedness conditions and rational choice, Order 24 (2007), 75 88. 45. Charles Blackorby, Walter Bossert and David Donaldson, Intertemporal social evaluation, in: J.E. Roemer and K. Suzumura (eds.), Intergenerational Equity and Sustainability, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke (2007), 131 154. 46. Walter Bossert, Conchita D Ambrosio and Vito Peragine, Deprivation and social exclusion, Economica 74 (2007), 777 803. 47. Walter Bossert, Yves Sprumont and Kotaro Suzumura, Ordering infinite utility streams, Journal of Economic Theory 135 (2007), 579 589. 48. Charles Blackorby, Walter Bossert and David Donaldson, Variablepopulation extensions of social aggregation theorems, Social Choice and Welfare 28 (2007), 567 589. 49. Walter Bossert and Conchita D Ambrosio, Dynamic measures of individual deprivation, Social Choice and Welfare 28 (2007), 77 88. 50. Charles Blackorby and Walter Bossert, Interpersonal comparisons of wellbeing, in: B. Weingast and D. Wittman (eds.), Oxford Handbook of Political Economy, Oxford University Press, Oxford (2006), 408 424. 51. Walter Bossert, Yves Sprumont and Kotaro Suzumura, Rationalizability of choice functions on general domains without full transitivity, Social Choice and Welfare 27 (2006), 435 458. 12
52. Charles Blackorby, Walter Bossert and David Donaldson, Anonymous single-profile welfarism, Social Choice and Welfare 27 (2006), 279 287. 53. Charles Blackorby, Walter Bossert and David Donaldson, Population ethics and the value of life, in: M. McGillivray (ed.), Inequality, Poverty and Wellbeing, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke (2006), 8 21. 54. Walter Bossert and Arkadii Slinko, Relative uncertainty aversion and additively representable set rankings, International Journal of Economic Theory 2 (2006), 105 122. 55. Walter Bossert and Conchita D Ambrosio, Reference groups and individual deprivation, Economics Letters 90 (2006), 421 426. 56. Walter Bossert, Yves Sprumont and Kotaro Suzumura, Maximal-element rationalizability, Theory and Decision 58 (2005), 325 350. 57. Charles Blackorby, Walter Bossert and David Donaldson, Multi-profile welfarism: a generalization, Social Choice and Welfare 24 (2005), 253 267; Erratum in 25, 227 228. 58. Walter Bossert, Jean Derks and Hans Peters, Efficiency in uncertain cooperative games, Mathematical Social Sciences 50 (2005), 12 23. 59. Walter Bossert, Yves Sprumont and Kotaro Suzumura, Consistent rationalizability, Economica 72 (2005), 185 200. 60. Charles Blackorby, Walter Bossert and David Donaldson, Criticallevel population principles and the repugnant conclusion, in: J. Ryberg and T. Tännsjö (eds.), The Repugnant Conclusion: Essays on Population Ethics, Kluwer, Dordrecht (2004), 45 59. 61. Walter Bossert and John A. Weymark, Utility in social choice, in: S. Barberà, P. Hammond, and C. Seidl (eds.), Handbook of Utility Theory, Vol. 2: Extensions, Kluwer, Dordrecht (2004), 1099 1177. 62. Salvador Barberà, Walter Bossert and Prasanta K. Pattanaik, Ranking sets of objects, in: S. Barberà, P. Hammond, and C. Seidl (eds.), Handbook of Utility Theory, Vol. 2: Extensions, Kluwer, Dordrecht (2004), 893 977. 63. Walter Bossert, Prasanta K. Pattanaik and Yongsheng Xu, Similarity of options and the measurement of diversity, Journal of Theoretical Politics 15 (2003), 405 421. 64. Charles Blackorby, Walter Bossert and David Donaldson, The axiomatic approach to population ethics, Politics, Philosophy and Economics 2 (2003), 342 381. 65. Walter Bossert and Yves Sprumont, Efficient and non-deteriorating choice, Mathematical Social Sciences 45 (2003), 131 142. 13
66. Walter Bossert, Yves Sprumont and Kotaro Suzumura, Upper semicontinuous extensions of binary relations, Journal of Mathematical Economics 37 (2002), 231 246. 67. Charles Blackorby, Walter Bossert and David Donaldson, Utilitarianism and the theory of justice, in: K.J. Arrow, A. Sen, and K. Suzumura (eds.), Handbook of Social Choice and Welfare, Vol. 1, Elsevier, Amsterdam (2002), 543 596. 68. Walter Bossert, Steven J. Brams and D. Marc Kilgour, Cooperative vs. non-cooperative truels: little agreement, but does that matter?, Games and Economic Behavior 40 (2002), 185 202. 69. Walter Bossert and Hans Peters, Efficient solutions to bargaining problems with uncertain disagreement points, Social Choice and Welfare 19 (2002), 489 502. 70. Charles Blackorby, Walter Bossert and David Donaldson, Population principles with number-dependent critical levels, Journal of Public Economic Theory 4 (2002), 347 368. 71. Walter Bossert and Yves Sprumont, Core rationalizability in two-agent exchange economies, Economic Theory 20 (2002), 777 791. 72. Charles Blackorby, Walter Bossert and David Donaldson, Rationalizable variable-population choice functions, Economic Theory 19 (2002), 355 378. 73. Walter Bossert and Marc Fleurbaey, Equitable insurance premium schemes, Social Choice and Welfare 19 (2002), 113 125. 74. Walter Bossert, Choices, consequences, and rationality, Synthese 129 (2001), 343 369. 75. Charles Blackorby, Walter Bossert and David Donaldson, Population ethics and the existence of value functions, Journal of Public Economics 82 (2001), 301 308. 76. Walter Bossert and Hans Peters, Minimax regret and efficient bargaining under uncertainty, Games and Economic Behavior 34 (2001), 1 10. 77. Charles Blackorby, Walter Bossert and David Donaldson, The value of limited altruism, Journal of Economic Theory 95 (2000), 37 70. 78. Walter Bossert and Hans Peters, Multi-attribute decision-making in individual and social choice, Mathematical Social Sciences 40 (2000), 327 339. 79. Walter Bossert, Prasanta K. Pattanaik and Yongsheng Xu, Choice under complete uncertainty: axiomatic characterizations of some decision rules, Economic Theory 16 (2000), 295 312. 80. Walter Bossert, Opportunity sets and uncertain consequences, Journal of Mathematical Economics 33 (2000), 475 496. 14
81. Walter Bossert, Welfarism and information invariance, Social Choice and Welfare 17 (2000), 321 336. 82. Walter Bossert, Intersection quasi-orderings: an alternative proof, Order 16 (1999), 221 225. 83. Charles Blackorby, Walter Bossert and David Donaldson, Functional equations and population ethics, Aequationes Mathematicae 58 (1999), 272 284. 84. Charles Blackorby, Walter Bossert and David Donaldson, Income inequality measurement: the normative approach, in: J. Silber (ed.), Handbook of Income Inequality Measurement, Kluwer, Dordrecht (1999), 133 157. 85. Charles Blackorby, Walter Bossert and David Donaldson, Foreign aid and population policy: some ethical considerations, Journal of Development Economics 59 (1999), 203 232. 86. Charles Blackorby, Walter Bossert and David Donaldson, Rationalizable solutions to pure population problems, Social Choice and Welfare 16 (1999), 395 407. 87. Charles Blackorby, Walter Bossert and David Donaldson, Information invariance in variable-population social-choice problems, International Economic Review 40 (1999), 403 422. 88. Walter Bossert, Marc Fleurbaey and Dirk Van de gaer, Responsibility, talent, and compensation: a second-best analysis, Review of Economic Design 4 (1999), 35 55. 89. Charles Blackorby, Walter Bossert and David Donaldson, Price-independent welfare prescriptions and population size, Journal of Economic Theory 84 (1999), 111 119. 90. Walter Bossert, Welfarism and rationalizability in allocation problems with indivisibilities, Mathematical Social Sciences 35 (1998), 133 150. 91. Charles Blackorby, Walter Bossert and David Donaldson, Uncertainty and critical-level population principles, Journal of Population Economics 11 (1998), 1 20. 92. Charles Blackorby, Walter Bossert, David Donaldson and Marc Fleurbaey, Critical levels and the (reverse) repugnant conclusion Journal of Economics 67 (1998), 1 15. 93. Walter Bossert, Comments on The empirical acceptance of compensation axioms, in: J.-F. Laslier, M. Fleurbaey, N. Gravel, and A. Trannoy (eds.), Freedom in Economics: New Perspectives in Normative Analysis, Routledge, London (1998), 282 284. 15
94. Charles Blackorby, Walter Bossert and David Donaldson, Birth-date dependent population ethics: critical-level principles, Journal of Economic Theory 77 (1997), 260 284. 95. Charles Blackorby, Walter Bossert and David Donaldson, Criticallevel utilitarianism and the population-ethics dilemma, Economics and Philosophy 13 (1997), 197 230. 96. Walter Bossert, Uncertainty aversion in nonprobabilistic decision models, Mathematical Social Sciences 34 (1997), 191 203. 97. Charles Blackorby, Walter Bossert and David Donaldson, Intertemporally consistent population ethics: birth-date dependent classical principles, Japanese Economic Review 48 (1997), 267 292. 98. Walter Bossert, Opportunity sets and individual well-being, Social Choice and Welfare 14 (1997), 97 112. 99. Charles Blackorby, Walter Bossert and David Donaldson, Intertemporally consistent population ethics: classical utilitarian principles, in: K.J. Arrow, A. Sen, and K. Suzumura (eds.), Social Choice Re-Examined, Vol. 2, Macmillan, London (1996), 137 162. 100. Walter Bossert, Ed Nosal and Venkatraman Sadanand, Bargaining under uncertainty and the monotone path solutions, Games and Economic Behavior 14 (1996), 173 189. 101. Walter Bossert and Marc Fleurbaey, Redistribution and compensation, Social Choice and Welfare 13 (1996), 343 355. 102. Charles Blackorby, Walter Bossert and David Donaldson, Consistency, replication invariance, and generalized Gini bargaining solutions, Journal of Economic Theory 69 (1996), 367 386. 103. Charles Blackorby, Walter Bossert and David Donaldson, Leximin population ethics, Mathematical Social Sciences 31 (1996), 115 131. 104. Charles Blackorby, Walter Bossert and David Donaldson, Quasi-orderings and population ethics, Social Choice and Welfare 13 (1996), 129 150. 105. Walter Bossert, The Kaldor compensation test and rational choice, Journal of Public Economics 59 (1996), 265 276. 106. Walter Bossert, Preference extension rules for ranking sets of alternatives with a fixed cardinality, Theory and Decision 39 (1995), 301 317. 107. Charles Blackorby, Walter Bossert and David Donaldson, Intertemporal population ethics: critical-level utilitarian principles, Econometrica 63 (1995), 1303 1320. 16
108. Walter Bossert and Guofu Tan, An arbitration game and the egalitarian bargaining solution, Social Choice and Welfare 12 (1995), 29 41. 109. Walter Bossert, Redistribution mechanisms based on individual characteristics, Mathematical Social Sciences 29 (1995), 1 17. 110. Charles Blackorby, Walter Bossert and David Donaldson, Multi-valued demand and rational choice in the two-commodity case, Economics Letters 47 (1995), 5 10. 111. Walter Bossert, Rational choice and two-person bargaining solutions, Journal of Mathematical Economics 23 (1994), 549 563. 112. Walter Bossert, Disagreement point monotonicity, transfer responsiveness, and the egalitarian bargaining solution, Social Choice and Welfare 11 (1994), 381 392. 113. Walter Bossert and Frank Stehling, On the uniqueness of cardinally interpreted utility functions, in: W. Eichhorn (ed.), Models and Measurement of Welfare and Inequality, Springer, Heidelberg (1994), 537 551. 114. Charles Blackorby, Walter Bossert and David Donaldson, Generalized Ginis and cooperative bargaining solutions, Econometrica 62 (1994), 1161 1178. Reprinted in: W. Thomson (ed.), Bargaining and the Theory of Cooperative Games: John Nash and Beyond, Edward Elgar, Northampton, MA (2010), Chapter 5. 115. Walter Bossert, Prasanta K. Pattanaik and Yongsheng Xu, Ranking opportunity sets: an axiomatic approach, Journal of Economic Theory 63 (1994), 326 345. 116. Walter Bossert and John A. Weymark, An alternative characterization of Paretian generalized median social welfare functions, in: W.E. Diewert, K. Spremann, and F. Stehling (eds.), Mathematical Modelling in Economics: Essays in Honor of Wolfgang Eichhorn, Springer, Heidelberg (1993), 65 74. 117. Walter Bossert and Frank Stehling, Social preferences as optimal compromises, in: W.E. Diewert, K. Spremann, and F. Stehling (eds.), Mathematical Modelling in Economics: Essays in Honor of Wolfgang Eichhorn, Springer, Heidelberg (1993), 56 64. 118. Walter Bossert, An alternative solution to bargaining problems with claims, Mathematical Social Sciences 25 (1993), 205 220. Reprinted in: W. Thomson (ed.), Bargaining and the Theory of Cooperative Games: John Nash and Beyond, Edward Elgar, Northampton, MA (2010), Chapter 42. 119. Walter Bossert, Continuous choice functions and the strong axiom of revealed preference, Economic Theory 3 (1993), 379 385. 120. Walter Bossert and John A. Weymark, Generalized median social welfare functions, Social Choice and Welfare 10 (1993), 17 33. 17
121. Walter Bossert and Andreas Pfingsten, Ordinal utility and economic price indices, Aequationes Mathematicae 44 (1992), 188 193. 122. Walter Bossert, Monotonic solutions for bargaining problems with claims, Economics Letters 39 (1992), 395 399. 123. Walter Bossert and Ton Storcken, Strategy-proofness of social welfare functions: the use of the Kemeny distance between preference orderings, Social Choice and Welfare 9 (1992), 345 360. 124. Walter Bossert and Frank Stehling, A remark on admissible transformations for interpersonally comparable utilities, International Economic Review 33 (1992), 739 744. 125. Walter Bossert, On intra- and interpersonal utility comparisons, Social Choice and Welfare 8 (1991), 207 219. 126. Walter Bossert and Andreas Pfingsten, Nonhomothetic preferences and exact price index numbers, Journal of Economic Theory 54 (1991), 338 349. 127. Walter Bossert, Population replications and ethical poverty measurement, Mathematical Social Sciences 20 (1990), 227 238. 128. Walter Bossert, Social evaluation with variable population size: an alternative concept, Mathematical Social Sciences 19 (1990), 143 158. 129. Walter Bossert and Andreas Pfingsten, Intermediate inequality: concepts, indices, and welfare implications, Mathematical Social Sciences 19 (1990), 117 134. 130. Walter Bossert, A note on intermediate inequality indices which are quasilinear means, Methods of Operations Research 60 (1990), 443 454. 131. Walter Bossert, An axiomatization of the single-series Ginis, Journal of Economic Theory 50 (1990), 82 92. 132. Walter Bossert, Maximin welfare orderings with variable population size, Social Choice and Welfare 7 (1990), 39 45. 133. Walter Bossert, On the extension of preferences over a set to the power set: an axiomatic characterization of a quasi-ordering, Journal of Economic Theory 49 (1989), 84 92. 134. Walter Bossert, The impossibility of an intermediate solution in a one-dimensional location model: a general result, Regional Science and Urban Economics 19 (1989), 113 123. 135. Walter Bossert and Hans Ulrich Buhl, More on sufficiency conditions for interior location in the triangle space, Journal of Regional Science 28 (1988), 127. 136. Walter Bossert and Andreas Pfingsten, The circular and time reversal tests reconsidered in economic price index theory, Statistical Papers 28 (1987), 271 284. 18
137. Walter Bossert and Hans Ulrich Buhl, On sufficiency conditions for interior location in the triangle space: a comment, Journal of Regional Science 26 (1986), 809 814. Book Reviews 1. Walter Bossert, Review of K.J. Arrow, A. Sen, and K. Suzumura (eds.), Social Choice Re-Examined: Volume 1, Macmillan, London, 1997, Economic Journal 110 (2000), F205 F206. 2. Walter Bossert, Review of C.Y. Cyrus Chu, Population Dynamics: A New Economic Approach, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1998, Journal of Economic Literature 37 (1999), 689 691. Unpublished Research Papers 1. Walter Bossert and Bhaskar Dutta, The measurement of welfare change, unpublished manuscript, University of Warwick, 2018. 2. Walter Bossert and Conchita D Ambrosio, Individual deprivation and being left behind, unpublished manuscript, University of Luxembourg, 2017. 3. Walter Bossert and Hans Peters, Choice on the simplex domain, Maastricht University School of Business and Economics, RM/17/030. 4. Walter Bossert and Kotaro Suzumura, Vote budgets and Dodgson s method of marks, unpublished manuscript, Waseda University, 2017. 5. Walter Bossert and Kotaro Suzumura, The Benthamite dictum of the greatest happiness of the greatest number: an ordinalist reinterpretation, unpublished manuscript, Waseda University, 2017. 6. Walter Bossert and Conchita D Ambrosio, Economic insecurity and variations in resources, ECINEQ Working Paper 422, 2016. 19