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2421
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63

Overview

Walter Bossert is affiliated with the University of Montreal in Canada. Their research spans multiple areas within economics, econometrics, and social sciences. The central themes of their work include game theory and voting systems, income, poverty and inequality, political philosophy and ethics, decision-making and behavioral economics, as well as economic theories and models.

The scientist's recent notable papers include:

  • Critical-level Sufficientarianism, 2021, Journal of Political Philosophy
  • Economic insecurity and political preferences, 2022, Oxford Economic Papers
  • Thresholds, critical levels, and generalized sufficientarian principles, 2022, Economic Theory

Walter Bossert frequently collaborates with a range of co-authors. Among the most frequent are Susumu Cato, Kohei Kamaga, Salvador Barberà, Conchita D'Ambrosio, and Matthew D. Adler.

Publications by Walter Bossert appear regularly in venues such as SSRN Electronic Journal, Social Choice and Welfare, Journal of Mathematical Economics, Journal of Economic Theory, and Journal of Political Philosophy.

Their work focuses on core subjects within economics and political science, including contributions to subfields such as economics and econometrics, sociology and political science, political science and international relations, safety research, and artificial intelligence.

Walter Bossert's research addresses a variety of topics, notably:

  • Game Theory and Voting Systems
  • Income, Poverty, and Inequality
  • Political Philosophy and Ethics
  • Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
  • Economic theories and models
  • Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies
  • Free Will and Agency

Best Publications

  • Population issues in social choice theory, welfare economics and ethics

    Charles Blackorby;Walter Bossert;David J. Donaldson

  • Ranking Sets of Objects

    Salvador Barberà;Walter Bossert;Prasanta K. Pattanaik

  • Redistribution mechanisms based on individual characteristics

    Walter Bossert

  • Deprivation and Social Exclusion

    Walter Bossert;Conchita D'ambrosio;Vito Peragine

  • Intermediate inequality: concepts, indices, and welfare implications

    Walter Bossert;Andreas Pfingsten

  • Intertemporal population ethics: critical-level utilitarian principles.

    Charles Blackorby;Walter Bossert;David Donaldson

  • Utility in Social Choice

    Walter Bossert;John A. Weymark

  • Multidimensional Poverty and Material Deprivation with Discrete Data

    Walter Bossert;Satya R. Chakravarty;Conchita D'Ambrosio;Conchita D'Ambrosio

  • Ranking Opportunity Sets: An Axiomatic Approach

    Walter Bossert;Prasanta K. Pattanaik;Yongsheng Xu

  • Redistribution and compensation

    Walter Bossert;Marc Fleurbaey

  • Measuring Economic Insecurity

    Walter Bossert;Conchita D'Ambrosio

  • Utilitarianism and the Theory of Justice

    Charles Blackorby;Walter Bossert;David Donaldson

  • A generalized index of fractionalization

    Walter Bossert;Conchita D'ambrosio;Eliana La Ferrara

  • The Measurement of Diversity

    Walter Bossert;Prasanta K. Pattanaik;Yongsheng Xu

  • Ordering Infinite Utility Streams

    Walter Bossert;Yves Sprumont;Kotaro Suzumura

  • Consistency, Choice, and Rationality

    Walter Bossert;Kotaro Suzumura

  • Poverty and Time

    Walter Bossert;Satya R. Chakravarty;Conchita D’Ambrosio;Conchita D’Ambrosio;Conchita D’Ambrosio

  • An axiomatization of the single-series Ginis

    Walter Bossert

  • Critical-Level Utilitarianism and the Population-Ethics Dilemma

    Charles Blackorby;Walter Bossert;David Donaldson

  • Choice under complete uncertainty: axiomatic characterizations of some decision rules*

    Walter Bossert;Prasanta K. Pattanaik;Yongsheng Xu

Frequent Co-Authors

Charles Blackorby
Charles Blackorby University of Warwick
David Donaldson
David Donaldson University of British Columbia
Kotaro Suzumura
Kotaro Suzumura Waseda University
John A. Weymark
John A. Weymark Vanderbilt University
Satya R. Chakravarty
Satya R. Chakravarty Indian Statistical Institute
Marc Fleurbaey
Marc Fleurbaey Paris School of Economics
Prasanta K. Pattanaik
Prasanta K. Pattanaik University of California, Riverside
Salvador Barberà
Salvador Barberà Autonomous University of Barcelona
Geir B. Asheim
Geir B. Asheim University of Oslo
Bhaskar Dutta
Bhaskar Dutta University of Warwick

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