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Social Choice and Welfare
Published in: Social Choice and Welfare 3-4/2017

27-09-2017 | Editorial

Social welfare, justice and distribution

An introduction to the special issue in honor of John Roemer

Published in: Social Choice and Welfare | Issue 3-4/2017

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It is our great pleasure to present this special issue in honor of John Roemer. The contributions collected here are meant as a homage to him and aim to reflect his many contributions to normative economics, political economy, distributive justice, and political philosophy over the last 4 decades. …
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Footnotes
1
He was suspended from Berkeley in 1968, due to participation and arrest in a demonstration and an occupation, lost his draft deferment, and taught mathematics in San Francisco secondary schools from 1969 to 1974, before being readmitted to Berkeley.
 
2
The September Group has comprised, among others, Jon Elster, Adam Przeworski, Robert Brenner, Philippe van Parijs, Hillel Steiner, Erik Olin Wright, and especially, Gerald A. Cohen who has had a profound influence on John’s thought.
 
3
His 1998 book on the topic (Roemer 1998) has more than 2000 citations, according to Google Scholar.
 
4
Due to an unfortunate mistake in the editorial process, these two papers were both submitted to this special issue but appeared in a regular issue of the Journal (Social Choice and Welfare, 2016, Volume 47, Issue 1, pp. 127–139 and pp. 187–205).
 
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Metadata
Title
Social welfare, justice and distribution
An introduction to the special issue in honor of John Roemer
Publication date
27-09-2017
Published in
Social Choice and Welfare / Issue 3-4/2017
Print ISSN: 0176-1714
Electronic ISSN: 1432-217X
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00355-017-1088-y

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John E. Roemer, President-elect of the Society for Social Choice and Welfare 2008–2009, President 2010–2011