I Summer School (1998)

The Philosophical Foundations of Normative Economics

A summer school at Venice International University organized by the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and the Urrutia Elejalde Foundation.
Venice, August 28 to September 3 (1998)

Director: Salvador Barberà, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

This course is one in a series of summer courses, organized by the Urrutia Elejalde Foundation and the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, with the aim of stimulating research on the philosophical foundations of normative economics. Each speaker will survey one or more cases of current interest, in particular distributive justice, equality of opportunities, applications of rational choice theory to collective choice, the design of mechanisms for the allocation of resources, utility and ethics, freedom of choice, etc. The first edition will cover large fields of current interests and hint at future developments. The school is primarily intended for advanced graduate and post-doctoral students with research interests in economics and philosophy. Applications by scholars who are more established and/or whose major research interests lie in other areas are also invited.

Lecturers:

• Claude d'Aspremont, CORE, Universite Catholique de Louvain
• Philippe Mongin, CNRS and Université Cergy-Pontoise
• Herve Moulin, Duke University
• John Roemer, University of California at Davis
• Amartya Sen, Harvard University and Cambridge University