Note from June 29, 2020
Although we do not yet know how long the social distancing related to the Covid-19 pandemic will last, and regardless of the changes that had to be made in the evaluation of the June 2020 session in relation to what is provided for in this learning unit description, new learnig unit evaluation methods may still be adopted by the teachers; details of these methods have been - or will be - communicated to the students by the teachers, as soon as possible.
Although we do not yet know how long the social distancing related to the Covid-19 pandemic will last, and regardless of the changes that had to be made in the evaluation of the June 2020 session in relation to what is provided for in this learning unit description, new learnig unit evaluation methods may still be adopted by the teachers; details of these methods have been - or will be - communicated to the students by the teachers, as soon as possible.
5 credits
30.0 h
Q1
This biannual learning unit is not being organized in 2019-2020 !
Teacher(s)
Maniquet François;
Language
English
Main themes
The course should study social ethics and welfare economics issues using the axiomatic tools of Social Choice Theory. Both welfarist and non-welfarist approaches should be presented. The static and the intertemporal so-cial choice frameworks should be introduced and equity conditions analyzed in both frameworks.
Aims
At the end of this learning unit, the student is able to : | |
| 1 | The objective of the course is to provide a basic training in the part of social choice theory which is most rele-vant for social ethics, in general, and for welfare economics, more specifically. |
The contribution of this Teaching Unit to the development and command of the skills and learning outcomes of the programme(s) can be accessed at the end of this sheet, in the section entitled “Programmes/courses offering this Teaching Unit”.
Content
Social choice theory is composed of different subfields, all being interested in studying norms in the design of some mechanisms. All these subfields are formally connected to the Arrow theorem. The course is an introduction to the main structure of social choice theory as well as to some of its subfields: welfarism, fairness, the Harsanyi utilitarianism, bargaining theory.
Teaching methods
The course will begin with a series of lectures, devoted to some of the main ideas and results in social choice theory. Then, students will be invited to study some important contributions to the field by themselves and present these contributions to the class.
Evaluation methods
The evaluation is composed of
1) evaluation of the presentation by the student (see above),
2) a written exam, in which students will be requested to discuss some key idea of the field and prove some fundamental theorems.
1) evaluation of the presentation by the student (see above),
2) a written exam, in which students will be requested to discuss some key idea of the field and prove some fundamental theorems.
Other information
The course will be composed of 9 lectures of 3 hours, beginning on Wednesday October 17.
Bibliography
A reading list will be distributed at the beginning of the course.
Faculty or entity
ECON
