PUBLICATION

Updated March 2026

Books

  1. “Freedom in Economics: New perspectives in normative analysis”, Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought, 1998, 283 p, London. (with J.F. Laslier, M. Fleurbaey, N. Gravel).
  2. “On entend dire qu’il faut une révolution fiscale”, Les Échos / Eyrolles, 2012.
  3. « Le grand retour de la terre dans les patrimoines et pourquoi c’est une bonne nouvelle », Odile Jacob, 2022 (with E. Wasmer).
  4. « Historiens et Économistes ? Un dialogue de sourds ? », Odile Jacob, 2025 (with A. Virmani).

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(A) Published papers in Journals (In English)


  1. M.Lebreton, A.Trannoy, J.R Uriarte : “Topological aggregation of inequality preorders” , Social Choice and Welfare, 2, 1985, 119-129.
  2. A.Trannoy : “On Thon's axiomatization of the Gini index” , Mathematical Social Sciences, 11, 1986, 374-377.
  3. J.Lainé, M.Lebreton, A.Trannoy : “Group decision making under uncertainty : a note on the aggregation of ordinal probabilities” , Theory and Decision, 21, 1986, 155-161.
  4. M.Lebreton, A.Trannoy : “Measures of inequality as an aggregation of individual preferences about income distribution; the arrowian case” , Journal of Economic theory, 41 N°2, 1987, 248-269.
  5. M.Lebreton, P.Moyes, A.Trannoy : “Inequality reducing properties of composite taxation” Journal of Economic Theory 1996, 69, 1, 71-103.
  6. N. Gravel, J.F.Laslier et A. Trannoy: “Consistency between tastes and values: a universalization approach" Social Choice and Welfare 2000, vol 17,2, 293-320.
  7. M. Sastre et A. Trannoy : « Shapley Inequality Decomposition By Factor Components: Some Methodological Issues", in P. Moyes, C Seidl and A.F. Shorrocks (eds) Inequality: Theory, Measurement and Applications, Journal of Economics (Zeitschift für Nationalalôkonomie),Supplement 9, 2002, 51-89.
  8. Alain Trannoy “Literacy rate, Internet and Earnings Inequality” Recherches Economiques de Louvain 68, 1-2, 2002, 125-148.
  9. J.Roemer, R. Aaberge, U. Colombino, J. Fritzell, S. Jenkins, A. Lefranc, I. Marx, M. Page, E. Pommer, J. Ruiz-Castillo, M. J. San Segundo, T. Tranaes, A. Trannoy, G.Wagner, et I. Zubiri: “To what extent do fiscal regimes equalize opportunities for income acquisition among citizens?” , Journal of Public Economics 2003 volume 87, no. 3/4, 539-565.
  10. J.F.Laslier, A.Trannoy et K.Van der Sraeten: “Voting under ignorance of unemployed skills : the bias toward overtaxation“, Journal of Public Economics 2003, volume 87, 595-626.
  11. M. Fleurbaey, C.Hagnere et A.Trannoy: “Welfare comparisons with bounded equivalence scales” Journal of Economic Theory 2003, 110, 309-336.
  12. M. Fleurbaey et A. Trannoy: “The Impossibility of a Paretian Dominant“Social Choice and Welfare 2003 21, 243-263.
  13. A. Trannoy “About the right weights of the social welfare function, when needs differ” 2003 Economic Letters, 81, 3, 383-387.
  14. R.Renault et A.Trannoy: “Protection of minorities through the average voting rule” Journal of Public Economic Theory,7, (2), 2005, pp 169-199.
  15. A. Lefranc et A.Trannoy : “Intergenerational earnings mobility in France? Is France more mobile than the US” Annales d’Economie et de Statistiques 2005, 78, 57-78.
  16. R. Renault and A. Trannoy: “The Bayesian Average Voting Game with a Large Population” Economie Publique/ Public Economics, 2005, 17, 155-167.
  17. N. Gravel, A. Michelangeli et A. Trannoy: “Measuring the social value of local public goods: an Empirical Analysis within Paris Metropolitan Area” Applied Economics, 2006, 38, 16, 1945-1961.
  18. E.Peluso et A. Trannoy: “Does less inequality among individuals mean less inequality among households” Journal of Economic Theory, 2007, 133, 1, 568-578.
  19. L. Simula et A.Trannoy: “Optimal linear Income tax when agents vote with their feet” Finanzarchiv, 2006, 62(3), 393-415.
  20. A. Benassy, N. Gobalraja et A. Trannoy: “Tax and Public input competition” Economic Policy, 2007, 50, 387-430.
  21. R. Gary-Bobo et A. Trannoy : “Efficient Tuition Fees and Examinations” Journal of European Economic Association 2008, Vol 6, 6, 1211-1243.
  22. A. Lefranc, N. Pistolesi et A. Trannoy : “Inequality of opportunities vs. inequality of outcomes: are Western societies all alike?” » Review of Income and Wealth 2008, 54, 4, 513-546.
  23. E.Peluso et A.Trannoy “Poverty Orderings and intra-household Inequality: the lost axiom” vol 18, 3-4, 2009, Journal of Income Distribution 24-33.
  24. A.Lefranc, N.Pistolesi and A.Trannoy “"Equality of opportunity and luck: Definitions and testable conditions, with an application to income in France" Journal of Public Economics 2009., vol 93, N° 11-12 1189-1208.
  25. L.Simula et A. Trannoy “Optimal Income Tax under the Threat of Migration by Top-Income Earners Journal of Public Economics 2010, 94,163-173.
  26. H.Couprie, E. Peluso et A.Trannoy “Is power more evenly balanced in poor households ?” Journal of Public Economics Volume 94, Issues 7-8, August 2010, 493-507.
  27. A.Trannoy, F.Jusot, S.Tubeuf, M.Devaux “Inequality of Opportunities in Health in France: A First Pass” Health Economics”, 2010, Volume 19, Issue 8, 921-938.
  28. C.Muller et A. Trannoy “A Dominance Approach to the Appraisal of the Distribution of Well-being across Countries” Journal of Public Economics 95 (2011), pp. 239-246
  29. A.Michelangeli, E.Peluso and A. Trannoy “Detecting a change in wealth concentration without the knowledge of the wealth distribution” , Journal of Economic Inequality Vol 9 (2011) 373-3
  30. A.Lefranc, N.Pistolesi and A. Trannoy “Measuring Circumstances: Francs or Ranks, does it matter?” Research on Economic Inequality Vol 19 edited by Juan Gabriel Rodriguez Inequality of Opportunity: Theory and Measurement: Chap 6 in;. 131 – 156.
  31. F. Chantreuil et A.Trannoy “Inequality Decomposition Values” Annales d’Economie et de Statistiques. 101-102, (2011, 13-36.
  32. R.Renault and A. Trannoy “Assessing the extent of strategic manipulation: the average vote example” SERIEs: Volume 2, Issue 4 (2011), Page 497-513.
  33. L. Simula and A. Trannoy « Shall we keep the highly-skilled at home? The optimal tax perspective in Social Choice and Welfare. 2012, Volume 39, Number 4, Pages
  34. B. Muller and A. Trannoy “Multidimensional Inequality Comparisons: A Compensation Perspective” Journal of Economic Theory, symposium on inequality and risk. Edited by John Weymark and Thibault Gajdos, 2012, 147, 1427-1449.
  35. E. Peluso and A. Trannoy “Preserving Dominance Relations Through Disaggregation: The Evil and the Saint” Social Choice and WelfareJuly 2012, Volume 39, Issue 2-3, pp 633-647.
  36. A. Trannoy “Family taxation and Fertility : the French Experience” Wirtschaftspolitische Blatter 2012/2/201-217.
  37. F. Chantreuil and A. Trannoy “Inequality Decomposition Values: a trade-off between marginality and efficiency” Journal of Economic Inequality, Volume 11, Issue 1, March 2013 as a“Rediscovering Classics”, 83-98.
  38. C. Crainich, L. Eckhoudt & A. Trannoy “Even (mixed) risk lovers are prudent” American Economic Review 2013, 103(4)), 1529-35.
  39. S. Tubeuf, F. Jusot and A. Trannoy “Circumstances and Efforts : How important is their correlation for the measurement of inequality of opportunity in health” in Health Economics 2013 v. 22(12), 1470-1495.
  40. D Bricard, F Jusot, A Trannoy and ,S Tubeuf “Inequality of Opportunities in Health and the Principle of Natural Reward: Evidence from European Countries” Research on Economic Inequality 2013, 21, 335-370.
  41. M Fleurbaey, C Hagneré, et A Trannoy “ Welfare comparisons of income distributions and family size: An individualistic approach “ Journal of Mathematical Economics 2014, 51, 12-27.
  42. E.Lehmann, L.Simula et A.Trannoy « Tax me if you can : Optimal Non Linear Income tax between Competing Governments “Quarterly Journal of Economics 2014 129: 1995-2030.
  43. A. Bénassy, A. Trannoy and G. Wolf “Tax harmonization in Europe: Moving Forward” 1Revista da Escola Galega de Administracion Publica 2015,10,1,113-13.
  44. R. Gary-Bobo et A. Trannoy “Optimal Student Loans and Graduate Tax under Moral Hazard and Adverse Selection” Rand Journal of Economics 2015, 46-3 546-576.
  45. Y. Arrighi, B. Davin, A. Trannoy and B. Ventelou “The non-take-up of long-term care benefit in France: a pecuniary motive?” Health Policy. 2015 Volume 119, Issue 10, 1338–1348.
  46. PP.Combes, B. Decreuse, M.Laouenan and A.Trannoy “Customer Discriminationand Employment Outcomes: Theory and Evidence from the French Labor Market” Journal of Labor Economics 2016, Vol. 34, No. 1, Part 1, 107-160.
  47. J. E Roemer, and A. Trannoy. 2016. “Equality of Opportunity: Theory and Measurement.” Journal of Economic Literature, 54(4):1288-1332.
  48. A Trannoy “Equality of Opportunity : A progress Report” Revue d’Economie Politique 2016/5 (Vol. 126) 621-651.
  49. A.Trannoy Are the theories of equality of opportunity put forward by Fleurbaey and Roemer incompatible? » Revue Economique 2017/1 (Vol. 68), 57-72.
  50. A Lefranc & A. Trannoy (2017) “Equality of opportunity, moral hazard and the timing of luck” Social Choice and Welfare 49 (3-4):469-97.
  51. A.Trannoy et L. Simula (2018) “Is high-skilled migration harmful to tax systems' progressivity?” IZA World of labor .
  52. PP. Combes, Decreuse B, Schmutz B and A. Trannoy (2018) “Neighbor discrimination theory and evidence from the French rental market” Journal of Urban Economics (2018), 104, 104-123.
  53. G. Bérard et A. Trannoy (2018) “The impact of a rise in the real Estate transfer tax on the French housing Market” Economie et Statistiques n° 500-501-502. 187-209.
  54. PH. Bono et A. Trannoy (2019) “The impact of the Scellier Income tax relief on developed land prices in France” , Economie et Statistiques 507-508.
  55. A.Trannoy (2019) “Talent, Equality of Opportunity and the optimal non-linear income tax” in memory of Tony Atkinson, Journal of Economic Inequality 17 (1), 5-28.
  56. G. Grimalda, A.Trannoy, F. Filgueira & K.O. Moene (2020) “Egalitarian redistribution in the era of hyper-globalization” Review of Social Economy 78,1,151-184.
  57. D. Bricard. F. Jusot, A.Trannoy, S. Tubeuf, (2020), “Inequality of opportunities in health and death: an investigation from birth to middle age in Great Britain” International Journal of Epidemiology, Volume 49, Issue 5, October 2020, Pages 1739–1748
  58. P. Brunori, A.Trannoy and C. Guidi (2021) “Ranking populations in terms of inequality of health opportunity: A flexible latent type approach” Health Economics, 2021 30(2):358-383.
  59. N. Asadullah, A.Trannoy, S. Tubeuf, G.Yalonetzky (2021) “Educational inequality of opportunity in a developing country: the role of pupil's effort” World Development 138, 105262
  60. O.Bonnet, G.Chapelle, A.Trannoy and E.Wasmer (2021) “Land is back, it should be taxed, it can be taxed” European Economic Review Volume 134 Article 103696.
  61. L. Simula et A. Trannoy (2022) “Gini and optimal taxation by rank” American Economic Journal: Economic Policy , Vol 14, n°3, 352-379.
  62. L. Simula et A. Trannoy (2023) “Bunching and rank-dependent optimal non-linear income tax by rank” Social Choice and Welfare en l’honneur de John Weymark, Vol 60, n°1-2, 237-263.
  63. Bono, P.-H., et A. Trannoy, A. (2024). Airplane Carbon Exchange) mechanism: A fair and efficient mechanism to reduce the carbon emissions of air travel., 134(4), Revue d’Economie Politique 553–582.
  64. Fur, T. L., et A. Trannoy, A. (2024). "The health-maximizing level of labor supply: a macroeconomic perspective on the American Health Puzzle". Journal of Population Economics, 37(4), 1-32.
  65. G. Bérard A. Trannoy (2025). « "Housing Policy Impacts on Poverty and Inequality in Europe". Review of Income and Wealth
  66. O.Chanel, S. Luchini, M. Teschl and A. Trannoy, (2025) : “Preferences for redistributive justice: A participatory-democracy experiment” . Journal of Economic Inequality
  67. A.De Palma R. Lindsey, S. Proost, Y. Riou, A. Trannoy (2025) : “Why combating climate change is so challenging” , Ambio. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13280-025-02239-0

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(B) Published Papers in Collective Books

  1. T.Karcher, P.Moyes, A.Trannoy : “The stochastic ordering of income distributions over time : the discounted sum of the expected utilities of incomes” , dans "Social Choice, Welfare and Ethics ", W.Barnett, H.Moulin, M.Salles et N.Schofield (eds) 1995, 375-408, Cambridge University Press.
  2. N.Gravel, J.F.Laslier, A.Trannoy, : “Individual Freedom of choice in a social setting” dans "Freedom in economics : New perspectives in Normative Analysis", Routledge 1998 Londres.
  3. N.Gravel, J.F.Laslier, A.Trannoy, : “Freedom of choice and individual preferences: a comment on Clemens Puppe's individual freedom and social choice” dans "Freedom in economics : New perspectives in Normative Analysis" Routledge 1998 Londres.
  4. J.F.Laslier, A.Trannoy et K.Van der Sraeten : “Voting over Income Flat Tax Schedules : an incomplete information perspective“ dans Logic, Game Theory and Social Choice (H de Swart ed) 1999 Tilburg University Press, 226-238.
  5. E. Peluso et A. Trannoy : “Welfare comparisons among individuals under Samuelson’s model of households” dans Household Behaviour, Equivalence Scales, Welfare and Poverty, C.Dagum and G.Ferrari (Eds), 2004, 11-28, Springer Verlag.
  6. A.Trannoy : “Multidimensional Egalitarianism and the dominance approach: a lost paradise” dans "Inequality and Economic Integration", F.Farina and E.Savaglio (eds) Routledge 2006, 282-302.
  7. L.Simula et A. Trannoy : “When Kolm meets Mirrlees : ELIE” in “Social Ethics and Normative Economics: Essays in Honour of Serge-Christophe Kolm” edited by M.Fleurbaey, M.Salles and J.Weymark Springer Verlag, 2011, 193-216.
  8. A.Trannoy et J.Weymark: “Dominance Criteria for Critical-Level Generalized Utilitarianism” Arguments for a Better World, Essays in Honour of Amartya Sen, edited by K.Basu and R.Kanbur, Oxford University Press, vol 1, Chap.15, 2008.
  9. A.Casella, S.Thoron et A.Trannoy : “Alan Kirman: a non-representative economist.” Introduction of the Special issue of the Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization in honor of Alan Kirman 2007, 64, 269-274.
  10. L.Simula et A. Trannoy : “An exploration in incentive-compatible ELIE” "On Kolm's theory of macrojustice - A Pluridisciplinary Forum of Exchange" Springer Verlag, édité par Michel Lubrano et Claude Gamel 2011, pp 207-231.
  11. A. Trannoy, ”Equity dimensions of transports policies” in Handbook in Transport Economics, Edward Elgar (Eds A. de Palma, R. Lindsey, E. Quinet and R. Vickerman) , Chapter 26,.Routledge 2011, 625-649.
  12. J.Roemer and A.Trannoy “Equality of Opportunity” in Handbook of Income Inequality vol, 2A Editors A. Atkinson et F.Bourguigon, Chapter 4, 2015 217-300. North-Holland
  13. A. Trannoy “Much do about nothing: the Solidarity tax on wealth (ISF) in France” in Proceedings of the Workshop’ Taxing Wealth, Present, Past and Future, European Economic Series Discussion paper 003 July 2015. 32-37
  14. A. Trannoy 2017 “ Inequality and welfare: “Is Europe Special “ Chapter 12 in Economics without Borders - Economic Research for European Policy Challenges, Eds L. Matyas, R. Blundell, E. Cantillon, B. Chizzolini, M. Ivaldi, W. Leininger, R. Marimon, and F. Steen Cambridge University Press, 511-567
  15. Gianluca Grimalda, Kalle Moene Fernando Filgueira, Marc Fleurbaey, Katherine Gibson, Carol Graham, Rubén Lo Vuolo, Reema Nanavaty, Hiroshi Ono, John Roemer, and Alain Trannoy 2018 “Social justice, well-being, and economic organization” Chapter 8 Volume 1: Socio-Economic Transformations, Rethinking society for the 21st Century Edited by IPSP, International Panel on Social Progress Cambridge University Press.pp 313-356.
  16. A. Trannoy 2025, “Why so few economists have become public figures” in Social Scientists in the Civic Space, Eds Arundhati Virmani, Jean Boutier, and Manohar Kumar. Routledge.
  17. A. Trannoy 2025 “Trading places and Equality of Opportunity” in Filmonomics: Economists Discuss the Silver Screen Eds André de Palma and Luc Leruth, Taylor and Francis, Routledge
  18. G. Chapelle, G. Gilbert, A. Trannoy et E.Wasmer, 2026 “Property-related tax; The French case” Chap 11 in Property taxation in Europe, R.Franszen, Prof R. Bahl and W. Mccluskey. The Lincoln Institute.

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(C) Book Reviews

  1. Mathematical Utility Theory - Utility Functions, Models, and Applications in the Social Sciences " par Herden et alii, dans Journal of Economics (Zeitschift für Nationalôkonomie), 2002, 76,3, 279-285.
  2. Handbook On Income Inequality Measurement, édité par Jacques Silber, Kluwer, Social Choice and Welfare 2004, 22, 3, 579-583.
  3. The Welfare State in the European Union: Economic and Social Perspectives P.Pestieau Economics of Transition .2007, 15, 7, 175-178.
  4. “Success and luck: good fortune and the myth of meritocracy” Robert Franck in Journal of economic inequality (2017)
  5. “Visions of inequality : From the French Revolution to the end of the cold war” Beknap Press, Cambridge, Mass from Branko Milanovic. In Journal of Economic Inequality (2024)
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Books

(A) Published papers in Journals (In English)

(B) Published Papers in Collective Books

(C) Book Reviews