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Jerome Rothenberg, 1924-2015. 

Welfare theorist at MIT.

Born in New York City, Jerome Rothenberg obtained his BA from Columbia in 1945, and subsequently his Ph.D. in 1954.  Rothernberg was then assistant professor at the University of California-Riverside until 1957, when he joined the faculty at the University of Chicago. He decamped three years later, in 1960, to neighboring Northwestern.  Jerome Rothenberg became professor of economics at  MIT in 1966, where he remained until retirement.

 

  

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Major Works of Jerome Rothenberg

  • "Marginal Preferences and the Theory of Welfare", 1953, Oxford EP.
  • "Conditions for Social Welfare Functions", 1953, JPE.
  • "Welfare Comparisons and Changes in Taste", 1953, AER.
  • "Reconsideration of a Group Welfare Index: Rejoinder on marginal preference", 1954, Oxford EP.
  • "Non-Convexity, Aggregation and Pareto Optimality", 1960, JPE.
  • The Measurement of Social Welfare, 1961.
  • "A Model of Economic and Political Decision-Making", 1965, in Margolis, editor, Public Economy of Urban Communities.
  • Economic Evaluation of Urban Renewal, 1967.
  • An Approach to the Welfare Analysis of Intertemporal Resource Allocation, 1967.
  • "Endogenous City-Suburb Rivalry Through Household Location", 1976, in Oates, editor, Political Economy of Multi-Level Government.
  • "Simultaneous Estimation of the Supply and Demand for Housing Location in a Multi-zoned Metropolitan Area", with K. Bradbury et al., 1977, in Ingram, editor, Residential Location and Urban Housing Markets.
  • "Urban Housing Markets and Housing Policy", 1978, in Bernstein and Mellon, editors, Quantitative Urban Analysis.

 
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Resources on  Jerome Rothenberg

  • Jerome Rothenberg papers at NBER

 

 
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