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Kevin W. S. Roberts

{{short description|British economist}}

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| alma_mater = University of Oxford
University of Essex

| field = Microeconomic theory, welfare economics and social choice theory

| institution = Nuffield College, University of Oxford

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| academic_advisors = James Mirrlees

| doctoral_students = Daron Acemoglu, Thomas Piketty, Jan Eeckhout{{Cite thesis|url=http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/2861/|title=Perfect matching and search in economic models|year=1998|type=phd|last1=Eeckhout|first1=Jan}}

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| notes = Thesis [https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/43126191 Welfare theoretic social choice.] (1977)

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Kevin W. S. Roberts{{cite web | title=VIAF| url=https://viaf.org/viaf/30483597/#Roberts,_Kevin_W.S.| work = Roberts, Kevin W.S. | publisher=Virtual International Authority File | access-date = 17 July 2014}} {{Post-nominals|country=GBR|FBA}} was the Sir John Hicks Professor of Economics at the University of Oxford until his retirement in 2020.

He was a professorial fellow of Nuffield College, a fellow of the British Academy and a fellow of the Econometric Society.{{Citation | last = Morris | first = Christopher W. | contribution = Contributors | editor-last = Morris | editor-first = Christopher W. | title = Amartya Sen | pages = xii | publisher = Cambridge University Press | location = Cambridge New York | year = 2009 | isbn = 9780521618069 | title-link = Amartya Sen }}

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Education

Kevin Roberts gained his doctorate from the University of Oxford in 1977.{{cite web|title=Kevin Roberts, Sir John Hicks Professor of Economics|url=http://www.economics.ox.ac.uk/Academic/kevin-roberts|publisher=Department of Economics, University of Oxford|access-date=17 July 2014}}{{cite thesis | degree = D.Phil. | last = Roberts | first = Kevin W.S. | date = 1977 | title = Welfare theoretic social choice | publisher = University of Oxford | oclc = 43126191 }}

Fellowships

|title=Fellows of the Econometric Society as of May 2014

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|publisher=The Econometric Society

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|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140725192349/http://www.econometricsociety.org/fellows.asp

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  • 2007 British Academy.{{cite web|title=British Academy Fellows, ROBERTS, Professor Kevin |url=http://www.britac.ac.uk/fellowship/directory/ord.cfm?member=5965 |publisher=British Academy for the humanities and social sciences |access-date=17 July 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140725172423/http://www.britac.ac.uk/fellowship/directory/ord.cfm?member=5965 |archive-date=25 July 2014 }}
  • Professorial Fellow, Nuffield College.{{cite web|title=Governing Body|url=http://www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/People/Pages/Governing-Body.aspx|publisher=Nuffield College, University of Oxford|access-date=17 July 2014}}

Selected bibliography

= Chapters in books =

  • {{Citation | last1 = Roberts | first1 = Kevin W.S. | contribution = The characterization of implementable choice rules | editor-last1 = Laffont | editor-first1 = Jean-Jacques | editor-link = Jean-Jacques Laffont | title = Aggregation and revelation of preferences | publisher = North-Holland Publishing Co. sole distributors for the U.S.A. and Canada, Elsevier North-Holland | location = Amsterdam New York New York | year = 1979 | isbn = 9780444853264 }}
  • {{Citation | last1 = Roberts | first1 = Kevin W.S. | contribution = The limit points to monopolistic competition | editor-last1 = Mas-Colell | editor-first1 = Andreu | editor-link = Andreu Mas-Colell | title = Noncooperative approaches to the theory of perfect competition | publisher = Academic Press | location = New York | year = 1982 | isbn = 9780124767508 }}
  • {{Citation | last1 = Roberts | first1 = Kevin W.S. | contribution = Cartel behaviour and asymmetric information | editor-last1 = Geroski | editor-first1 = Paul | editor-last2 = Phlips | editor-first2 = Louis | editor-last3 = Ulph | editor-first3 = Alistair | editor-link1= Paul Geroski | title = Oligopoly, competition, and welfare | publisher = B. Blackwell | location = Oxford, Oxfordshire, UK New York, New York, USA | year = 1985 | isbn = 9780631144793 }}
  • {{Citation | last1 = Roberts | first1 = Kevin W.S. | contribution = "Collusion" (definition) | editor-last1 = Eatwell | editor-first1 = John | editor-last2 = Milgate | editor-first2 = Murray | editor-last3 = Newman | editor-first3 = Peter K. | editor-link1 = John Eatwell, Baron Eatwell | editor-link2 = Murray Milgate | editor-link3 = Peter Kenneth Newman | title = The New Palgrave: a dictionary of economics | publisher = Macmillan Stockton Press Maruzen | location = London New York Tokyo | year = 1987 | isbn = 9780333740408 }}
  • {{Citation | last1 = Roberts | first1 = Kevin W.S. | contribution = "Enforcement" (definition) | editor-last1 = Eatwell | editor-first1 = John | editor-last2 = Milgate | editor-first2 = Murray | editor-last3 = Newman | editor-first3 = Peter K. | editor-link1 = John Eatwell, Baron Eatwell | editor-link2 = Murray Milgate | editor-link3 = Peter Kenneth Newman | title = The New Palgrave: a dictionary of economics | publisher = Macmillan Stockton Press Maruzen | location = London New York Tokyo | year = 1987 | isbn = 9780333740408 }}
  • {{Citation | last1 = Roberts | first1 = Kevin W.S. | contribution = Valued opinions or opinionated values: the double aggregation problem | editor-last1 = Basu | editor-first1 = Kaushik | editor-last2 = Suzumura | editor-first2 = Kotaro | editor-last3 = Pattanaik | editor-first3 = Prasanta | editor-link1= Kaushik Basu | editor-link2= Kotaro Suzumura | editor-link3 = Prasanta Pattanaik | title = Choice, welfare, and development: a festschrift in honour of Amartya K. Sen | publisher = Clarendon Press Oxford University Press | location = Oxford New York | year = 1995 | isbn = 9780198287896 }}
  • {{Citation | last1 = Roberts | first1 = Kevin W.S. | last2 = Felli | first2 = Leonardo Felli | contribution = Competition and hold-ups | editor-last1 = Stern | editor-first1 = Nicholas H. | editor-last2 = Atkinson | editor-first2 = Anthony B. | editor-last3 = Glennerster | editor-first3 = Howard | editor-link1 = Nicholas Stern, Baron Stern of Brentford | editor-link2 = Tony Atkinson| title = Putting economics to work: volume in honour of Michio Morishima | volume = 22 | publisher = London School of Economics and Political Science, and the STICERD - Suntory-Toyota International Centre for Economics and Related Disciplines | location = London | year = 2000 | isbn = 9780753013991 }}
  • {{Citation | last1 = Roberts | first1 = Kevin W.S. | contribution = A reconsideration of the optimal income tax | editor-last1 = Myles | editor-first1 = Gareth D. | editor-last2 = Hammond | editor-first2 = Peter | editor-link1 = Gareth Myles | editor-link2 = Peter J. Hammond (economist) | title = Incentives, organization, and public economics: papers in honour of Sir James Mirrlees | publisher = Oxford University Press | location = Oxford New York | year = 2000 | isbn = 9780199242290 }}
  • {{Citation | last1 = Roberts | first1 = Kevin W.S. | contribution = Irrelevant alternatives | editor-last1 = Basu | editor-first1 = Kaushik | editor-last2 = Kanbur | editor-first2 = Ravi | editor-link1= Kaushik Basu | editor-link2= Ravi Kanbur | title = Arguments for a better world: essays in honor of Amartya Sen | pages = 231–249 | publisher = Oxford University Press | location = Oxford New York | year = 2009 | isbn = 9780199239115 }}
  • {{Citation | last1 = Roberts | first1 = Kevin W.S. | contribution = Social choice theory and the informational basis approach | editor-last1 = Morris | editor-first1 = Christopher W. | editor-link1= Christopher W. Morris | title = Amartya Sen | pages = 115 | publisher = Cambridge University Press | location = New York | year = 2009 | isbn = 9780521852913 }}

= Journal articles =

1971–1980

  • {{Cite journal | last1 = Roberts | first1 = Kevin W.S. | last2 = Goodin | first2 = Robert E. | title = The ethical voter | journal = The American Political Science Review | volume = 69 | issue = 3 | pages = 926–928 | doi = 10.2307/1958406 | date = September 1975 | jstor = 1958406 | s2cid = 146590861 }}
  • {{Cite journal | last = Roberts | first = Kevin W.S. | title = Voting over income tax schedules | journal = Journal of Public Economics | volume = 8 | issue = 3 | pages = 329–340 | doi = 10.1016/0047-2727(77)90005-6 | date = December 1977 }}
  • {{Cite journal | last = Roberts | first = Kevin W.S. | title = Welfare considerations of nonlinear pricing | journal = The Economic Journal | volume = 89 | issue = 353 | pages = 66–83 | doi = 10.2307/2231407 | date = March 1979 | jstor = 2231407 }}
  • {{Cite journal | last = Roberts | first = Kevin W.S. | title = Possibility theorems with interpersonally comparable welfare levels | journal = The Review of Economic Studies | volume = 47 | issue = 2 | pages = 409–420 | doi = 10.2307/2297001 | date = January 1980 | jstor = 2297001 }}
  • {{Cite journal | last = Roberts | first = Kevin W.S. | title = Interpersonal comparability and social choice theory | journal = The Review of Economic Studies | volume = 47 | issue = 2 | pages = 421–439 | doi = 10.2307/2297002 | date = January 1980 | jstor = 2297002 }}
  • {{Cite journal | last = Roberts | first = Kevin W.S. | title = Social choice theory: the single-profile and multi-profile approaches | journal = The Review of Economic Studies | volume = 47 | issue = 2 | pages = 441–50 | doi = 10.2307/2297003 | date = January 1980 | jstor = 2297003 }}
  • {{Cite journal | last1 = Roberts | first1 = Kevin W.S. | last2 = Neary | first2 = J. Peter | author-link2 = J. Peter Neary | title = The theory of household behaviour under rationing | journal = European Economic Review | volume = 13 | issue = 1 | pages = 25–42 | doi = 10.1016/0014-2921(80)90045-8 | date = January 1980 | url = https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/economics/research/workingpapers/1978-1988/twerp132.pdf }}
  • {{Cite journal | last = Roberts | first = Kevin W.S. | title = The limit points of monopolistic competition | journal = Journal of Economic Theory | volume = 22 | issue = 2 | pages = 256–278 | doi = 10.1016/0022-0531(80)90043-5 | date = April 1980 }}
  • {{Cite journal | last = Roberts | first = Kevin W.S. | title = Price-independent welfare prescriptions | journal = Journal of Public Economics | volume = 13 | issue = 3 | pages = 277–297 | doi = 10.1016/0047-2727(86)90007-1 | date = June 1980 }}

1981–1990

  • {{Cite journal | last1=Roberts | first1=Kevin W.S. | last2=Weitzman | first2=Martin L. | author-link2= Martin Weitzman | title = Funding criteria for research, development, and exploration projects | journal = Econometrica | volume = 49 | issue = 5 | pages = 1261–1288 | doi = 10.2307/1912754 | date = September 1981 | jstor=1912754 | url = http://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/1721.1/35160/1/MIT-EL-79-009-06439420.pdf | hdl=1721.1/35160 | hdl-access = free }}
  • {{Cite journal | last = Roberts | first = Kevin W.S. | title = Desirable fiscal policies under Keynesian unemployment | journal = Oxford Economic Papers | volume = 34 | issue = 1 | pages = 1–22 | publisher = Oxford University Press | date =March 1982 | jstor = 2662737 | doi = 10.1093/oxfordjournals.oep.a041537 }}
  • {{Cite journal | last = Roberts | first = Kevin W.S. | title = Social choice rules and real-valued representations | journal = Journal of Economic Theory | volume = 29 | issue = 1 | pages = 72–94 | doi = 10.1016/0022-0531(83)90123-0 | date = February 1983 }}
  • {{Cite journal | last1=Roberts | first1=Kevin W.S. | last2=Guesnerie | first2=Roger | author-link2= Roger Guesnerie | title = Effective policy tools and quantity controls | journal = Econometrica | volume = 52 | issue = 1 | pages = 59–86 | doi = 10.2307/1911461 | date = January 1984 | jstor=1911461 | url=http://www.cepremap.fr/depot/couv_orange/co8014.pdf }}
  • {{Cite journal | last=Roberts | first=Kevin W.S. | title = The theoretical limits to redistribution | journal = Review of Economic Studies | volume = 51 | issue = 2 | pages = 177–195 | doi = 10.2307/2297686 | date = April 1984 | jstor=2297686 | citeseerx=10.1.1.159.9418 }}
  • {{Cite journal | last=Roberts | first=Kevin W.S. | title = Cartel behaviour and adverse selection | journal = Journal of Industrial Economics| volume = 33 | issue = 4 | pages = 401–413 | doi = 10.2307/2098383 | date = June 1985 | jstor=2098383 }}
  • {{Cite journal | last1=Roberts | first1=Kevin W.S. | last2=Guesnerie | first2=Roger | author-link2= Roger Guesnerie | title = Minimum wage legislation as a second best policy | journal = European Economic Review | volume = 31 | issue = 1–2 | pages = 490–498 | doi = 10.1016/0014-2921(87)90067-5 | date = February–March 1987 }}

1991–2000

  • {{Cite journal | last1=Roberts | first1=Kevin W.S. | title = Objective interpersonal comparisons of utility | journal = Social Choice and Welfare | volume = 14 | issue = 1 | pages = 79–96 | doi = 10.1007/s003550050053 | date = December 1996 | s2cid=154546248 }}
  • {{Cite journal | last = Roberts | first = Kevin W.S. | title = Rationality and the LeChatelier principle | journal = Journal of Economic Theory | volume = 87 | issue = 2 | pages = 416–428 | doi = 10.1006/jeth.1999.2544 | date = August 1999 }}

2001–2010

  • {{Cite journal | last1=Roberts | first1=Kevin W.S. | title = Condorcet cycles? A model of intertemporal voting | journal = Social Choice and Welfare | volume = 29 | issue = 3 | pages = 383–404 | doi = 10.1007/s00355-006-0211-2 | date = October 2007 | citeseerx=10.1.1.217.5435 | s2cid=3848976 }}
  • {{Cite journal | last1=Roberts | first1=Kevin W.S. | title = The participant's curse and the perception of unequal treatment | journal = Economics Letters | volume = 97 | issue = 2 | pages = 162–169 | doi = 10.1016/j.econlet.2007.02.037 | date = November 2007 }}
  • {{Cite journal | last1=Roberts | first1=Kevin W.S. | title = Wage and employment determination through non-cooperative bargaining | journal = Scottish Journal of Political Economy | volume = 54 | issue = 5 | pages = 699–720 | doi = 10.1111/j.1467-9485.2007.00437.x | date = November 2007 | citeseerx=10.1.1.149.8157 | s2cid=6881186 }}
  • {{Cite journal | last1=Roberts | first1=Kevin W.S. | last2=Maskin | first2=Eric S. | author-link2 = Eric Maskin | title = On the fundamental theorems of general equilibrium | journal = Economic Theory | volume = 35 | issue = 2 | pages = 233–240 | doi = 10.1007/s00199-007-0233-8 | date = May 2008 | citeseerx=10.1.1.149.5367 | s2cid=16340673 }}

= Papers =

  • {{cite book | last1=Roberts | first1=Kevin W.S. | last2=Weitzman | first2=Martin L. | author-link2= Martin Weitzman | title= Funding criteria for research, development, and exploration projects (issue 234 of working paper) | publisher= Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | location=Massachusetts | year = 1979 | oclc= 5012947 | ref= MIT-EL-79-009 }}
  • {{cite book | last1=Roberts | first1=Kevin W.S. | last2= Grodal | first2= Birgit | last3= Hahn | first3= F. | last4= Hildenbrand | first4= W. | last5= Polemarchakis | first5= H. | author-link2= Birgit Grodal | title= General equilibrium 40th anniversary conference: held at CORE on 3-5 June 1993 (discussion paper) | volume = 9482 | publisher= CORE - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics, Université Catholique de Lopuvain | location=Louvain | year = 1994 | oclc= 258562027 }}
  • {{cite book | last=Roberts | first=Kevin W.S. | title=Dynamic voting in clubs (Discussion paper) | publisher=London School of Economics and the STICERD - Suntory-Toyota International Centre for Economics and Related Disciplines | location= London | date = January 1999 | oclc= 154666869 | ref= TE/99/367 }}
  • {{cite book | last1=Roberts | first1=Kevin W.S. | last2=Felli | first2=Leonardo | title=Does competition solve the hold-up problem? (Discussion paper) | publisher=Centre for Economic Policy Research | location=London | year = 2002 | oclc=50900485 | ref=3535 }}

References

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External links

  • [http://www.economics.ox.ac.uk/Academic/kevin-roberts Profile: Kevin Roberts] Department of Economics, University of Oxford
  • [http://www.nuffield.ox.ac.uk/People/sites/RobertsK/SitePages/Biography.aspx Profile: Kevin Roberts] Nuffield College, University of Oxford

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