Professor Kevin Roberts FBA

Microeconomic theory; the foundations of welfare and public economics, social and collective choice, quotas and rationing, the theory of market and general equilibrium.
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2007
Subjects
Economics

Current post

Sir John Hicks Professor of Economics, University of Oxford

Past appointments

University of Oxford Sir John Hicks Professor of Economics

1999 -

University of Oxford Sir John Hicks Professor of Economics, University of Oxford

1998 -

University of Oxford Sir John Hicks Professor of Economics, University of Oxford

1998 -

London School of Economics and Political Science University of London Professor of Economics

1987 - 1999

University of Warwick Professor of Economic Theory

1982 - 1987

Publications

The Characterization of Implementable Choice Rules, in J-J Laffont The Aggregation and Revelation of Preferences 1979

Interpersonal Comparability and Social Choice Theory Review of Economic Studies, 47(2) 1980

The Theoretical Limits to Redistribution Review of Economic Studie, 51(2) 1984

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Torsten Persson FBA

The political economics of economic policy; applications to inequality & growth, public debt, central-bank independence, constitutions, development, state capacity, violent conflict & reforms of economic & political institutions.

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Professor Janet Currie FBA

Economics of investing in children; socioeconomic differences in health and access to care, environmental threats, mental health, short and longer-run impacts of conditions in pregnancy, early childhood and adolescence

Janet Currie FBA

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