Equality Of Opportunity: The Economics Of Responsibility

Marc Fleurbaey is Laurance S Rockefeller Professor of Public Affairs and the University Center for Human Values. He has been an economist at INSEE (Paris), a professor of economics at the Universities of Cergy-Pontoise and Pau (France), and a research director at the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) in Paris. He has also been a Lachmann Fellow and a visiting professor at the London School of Economics, a research associate at the Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE, Louvain-la-Neuve) and the Institute for Public Economics (IDEP, Marseilles), and a visiting researcher at Oxford.
He is a former editor of the journal Economics and Philosophy and is the coordinating editor of Social Choice and Welfare. He is the author of Fairness, Responsibility, and Welfare (2008), a co-author of A Theory of Fairness and Social Welfare (with François Maniquet, 2011), and the co-editor of several books, including Justice, Political Liberalism, and Utilitarianism: Themes from Harsanyi and Rawls (with Maurice Salles and John Weymark, 2008).
His research on normative and public economics and theories of distributive justice has focused in particular on the analysis of equality of opportunity and responsibility-sensitive egalitarianism, on seeking solutions to impossibilities of social choice theory, on measuring well-being and social welfare, as well as exploring the notion of equity in health and health care.

François Maniquet is Professor of Economics at Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, and part-time Professor of Economics at University of Warwick. He has been FNRS Research Associate at the University of Namur, Belgium. He has been member of the Institute of Advanced Study in Princeton, and Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics and at the Ecole Polytechnique, Paris. He is currently an editor of the journal Economics and Philosophy. He is the co-author of A Theory of Fairness and Social Welfare (with Marc Fleurbaey, 2011). He has published papers in social choice theory, game theory, and political economics, but his main research has focused on the analysis of equality of opportunity and responsibility-sensitive egalitarianism, and on the taxation implications of this analysis. In 2004, he was awarded the Social Choice and Welfare Prize. In 2010, he was awarded the Francqui Prize, the highest scientific distinction in Belgium. He received an advanced ERC grant in 2010, to develop research in
poverty economics.