[EQ] Call for Papers - STICERD/CORNELL Conference: Inequality: New Directions

Call for Papers - STICERD/CORNELL Conference:
Inequality: New Directions

Ithaca, New York, USA, on September 12-13, 2009

Website: http://sticerd.lse.ac.uk/_new/news/year.asp?txtonly=Y&display1=Y&display2=Y#215

It is now four decades since the seminal publications of the modern theory of inequality measurement: Serge Kolm's "The Optimal Production of Social Justice", Tony Atkinson's "On the Measurement of Inequality", and Amartya Sen's "On Economic Inequality."

The conference Inequality: New Directions will provide the opportunity to take stock and to look to the challenges and research avenues that lie ahead.
It will include contributions from:
Tony Atkinson, Francois Bourguignon, Udo Ebert, James Foster, Serge Kolm, Patrick Moyes, Amartya Sen, Tony Shorrocks, Joseph Stiglitz and Shlomo Yitzhaki.

The organizers, Frank Cowell (LSE) and Ravi Kanbur (Cornell) now invite submissions of completed papers on new directions in the conceptualization and measurement of inequality.

 

The deadline for submissions is March 15, 2009.
Decisions on selection will be communicated by April 30, 2009. Conference versions of the selected papers will be expected to be delivered by August 1, 2009.

The conference will take place at Cornell University's campus in Ithaca, New York, USA, on September 12-13, 2009.

·         The conference will meet travel costs and provide accommodation for one author per paper selected.

·         Papers presented at the conference will be considered for publication in a leading refereed journal.

·         Papers should be sent to Ravi Kanbur at sk145@cornell.edu

Professor F. A. Cowell STICERD and Economics Department

London School of Economics and Political Science http://darp.lse.ac.uk/cowell.htm

 

 

 

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