John E. Roemer

Making Market Socialism Work (Practical Utopias)

Equal Shares

Fifteen essays, written over the past dozen years, explore contemporary philosophical debates on egalitarianism, using the tools of modern economic theory, general equilibrium theory, game theory, and the theory of mechanism design.

Essays in Philosophical Economics

Egalitarian Perspectives

Elizabeth S and a Varick Stout Professor of Political Science and Economics John E Roemer

A tentative offering to be considered part of a growing inquiry, rather like starting to design a new house while the embers of the old one are still glowing. Discusses some of the principles of socialism that have been obscured by the Marxist experiment and its failure, analyzes some of the faults underlying that failure, and suggests other approaches to manifesting socialism, particularly market socialism. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

A Future for Socialism

Professor of Economics and Director of the Program on Economy Justice & Society John E Roemer

This study, first published in 2006, investigates whether democracy through education may be used to generate equality among citizens.

Graz-Schumpeter Lectures

Democracy, Education, and Equality

Un futuro per il socialismo

In this text, Roemer proposes a new future of socialism based on a redefinition of market socialism. The Achille's heel of socialism has always been maintaining innovation and efficiency in an economy in which income is equally distributed. Roemer points out that large capitalist firms have already solved a similar problem: in those firms, profits are distributed to numerous shareholders, yet they continue to innovate and compete. The author argues for a modified version of socialism, not necessarily based on public ownership, but founded on equality of opportunity and political influence.

Jean Hampton

David Copp

In the wake of the creation of new democratic regimes around the world, political theorists have begun to rethink the nature and justification of this form of government. This collection of essays addresses a variety of fundamental questions about democracy.

The Idea of Democracy

This book gives a rigorous view of classical Marxian economic theory by presenting specific analytic models.

Analytical Foundations of Marxian Economic Theory

John Roemer has written a unique book that critiques economists' conceptions of justice from a philosophical perspective and philosophical theories of distributive justice from an economic one.

John E. Roemer

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