SSCW

The First Meeting

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The First Meeting

On the behalf of the Society for Social Choice and Welfare, Maurice Salles organized the first meeting of the Society for Social Choice and Welfare in Caen in June 1992. Hervé Moulin had the heavy duty to chair the programme committee. Kenneth Arrow (Nobel 1972), Amartya Sen (Nobel 1998) and John Harsanyi (Nobel 1994) participated in this first meeting, as well as their successors as presidents of the Society, Claude d'Aspremont, Salvador Barberà, Bhaskar Dutta, Marc Fleurbaey, Hervé Moulin, Prasanta Pattanaik, Hans Peters, John E. Roemer, Arunava Sen, Kotaro Suzumura, William Thomson and John Weymark. Two of the 2007 Nobel prize laureates, Eric Maskin and Roger Myerson were also present to the meeting.

Click here to see the programme of the first meeting

Click here to see the list of participants

Click here to see the portfolio

2024 Meeting

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The 17th meeting of the Society for Social Choice and Welfare will be held in Paris in 2024, from July 3 to 6.

The homepage of the next SSCW meeting, taking place in Paris in July 2024, is now online:

https://website-50514.eventmaker.io/en

Contact :info-scw24 at psemail.eu

Important dates :

Submission of papers: from January 1 to February 1, 2024
Notification of paper acceptance: March 15, 2024
Deadline for early registration: April 30, 2024
Deadline by which presenting authors must be registered for inclusion in the program: May 31, 202

Plenary Lectures

Condorcet Lecture	Elizabeth Maggie Penn
Arrow Lecture	Bertil Tugodden
Special Lecture	Thomas Piketty
Presidential Address	Bettina Klaus
SSCW Prize Lecture	Souvik Roy
SSCW Prize Lecture	Piotr Skowron

2026 Meeting

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The 18th meeting of the Society for Social Choice and Welfare will be held in Tokyo in 2026, from June 13 to 16.

We are pleased to announce that the 18th meeting of the Society for Social Choice and Welfare will be held at the University of Tokyo, Hongo Campus (Ito International Research Center and Institute of Social Science) in 2026, from June 13 to 16.

Information about the meeting will be progressvely posted on this website.

Contact: Susumu.Cato

Plenary Speakers


Arrow Lecture	Christian List	Ludwig Maximilians University Munich
Condorcet Lecture	Edith Elkind	Northwestern University
Presidential Address	Youngsub Chun	Seoul National University
Prize Lecture	Florian Brandl	University of Bonn
Prize Lecture	Mengling Li	Xiamen University

2028 and 2030 SSCW Meetings: Call

Admin — 2023-12-11T09:57:11Z

During the 2026 SSCW meeting in Tokyo, the council will have to decide the location for its 2028 meeting. Colleagues who would like to make a proposal for the organisation of the next meeting should contact the executive committe (Bettina Klaus, Marc Fleurbaey, and Vincent Merlin) by January 1st, 2026. The proposals will have to be presented and discussed during the council meeting in Tokyo.

As the location of the meeting traditionnaly rotates between continents, the executive committe will in priority consider propositions from Americas and Africa. Collegues who would be interested in organizing the meeting in 2030 or 2032 are also encouraged to get in touch with the executive committee.

Future organizers should know that the meeting is generally attended by 250 to 350 participants ; they should be able to self finance the meeting with registrations and sponsors.

Online Seminars

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The Society is pleased to inform you that several online seminars are organized in our community. You will find below the list of seminars that are currently running. For more information, please contact their organizers or consult their websites.

The Online Social Choice and Welfare Seminar Series

Chaired by Marcus Pivato (marcus.pivato at cyu.fr)

https://sites.google.com/view/2021onlinescwseminars/

Runs twice per month, usually on Tuesdays, 10 AM New York, 4 Pm Paris, 11PM Tokyo/Séoul

COMSOC video seminar

Chaired by Dominik Peters (mail at dominik-peters.de)

https://www.comsocseminar.org/

Runs once per month, tipically on the second friday of each month, at 3 pm Paris time, 9 am New York time,

Normative Economics and Economic Policy

Organized by Maya Eden (meden at brandeis.edu) and Paolo Giovanni Piacquadio (p.g.piacquadio at econ.uio.no)

https://sites.google.com/view/normativeeconomics/home

Runs twice per month, usually on Mondays 1pm East Standart Time, 7pm Central Europe Summer Time.

List of Past Meetings

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List of the past meetings

June 2022 - El Colegio de Mexico

Organized by David Cantala (El Colegio de Mexico), Diego Dominguez (ITAM), Kaniska Dam (CIDE), Andrei Gomberg (ITAM)

Lectures	Speakers
Presidential Address	Marc Fleurbaey (Paris School of Economics, CNRS)
Arrow Lecture	Federico Echenique (Caltech)
Condorcet Lecture	Szilvia Pápai (Concordia UNiversity)
Prize Lectures	Jamie Morgenstern (University of Washington) and Gabriel Caroll (University of Toronto)

December 2020 - Online Social Choice and Welfare Meeting

Organized by David Cantala (El Colegio de Mexico), Diego Dominguez (ITAM), Kaniska Dam (CIDE), Andrei Gomberg (ITAM)

Lectures	Speakers
Presidential Address	Arunava Sen (Indian Statistical Institute)
Arrow Lecture	Jordi Masso (Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona)
Condorcet Lecture	Leeat Yariv (Princeton Universtiy)
Prize Lectures	Pietro Ortovela (Princeton University) and Arial Procacia (Harvard University)

June 2018 - Lotte Hotel Seoul

Organized by Youngsub Chun - National Seoul University

Lectures	Speakers
Presidential Address	Hans Peters (Maastricht University)
Arrow Lecture	Tayfun Sönmez (Boston College)
Condorcet Lecture	Arunava Sen (Indian Statistical Institute)
Prize Lectures	Georgy Egorov (Northwestern University) and Debasis Mishra (Indian Statistical Institute)

June 2016 - Lund University

Organized by Tommy Anderson

Lectures	Speakers
Presidential Address	Claude d'Aspremont (Université Catholique de Louvain)
Arrow Lecture	Hans Peters (Maastricht University)
Condorcet Lecture	Gabrielle Demange (Paris School of Economics, EHESS)
Prize Lectures	Fuhito Kojima (Stanford University), Parag Pathak (MIT)

June 2014 - Boston College

Organized by Hideo Konishi and Utku Unver

Lecture	Speaker
Presidential Address	Bhaskar Dutta (University of Warwick)
Arrow Lecture	Daron Acemoglu (MIT)
Condorcet Lecture	Parag Pathak (MIT)
Special Lecture	Amartya Sen (Harvard University)
Prize Lectures	Tim Roughgarden (Stanford University), Vincent Conitzer (Duke University)

August 2012 - ISI Delhi

Organized by Arunava Sen, Bhaskar Dutta and Debasis Mishra

Lecture	Speaker
Presidential Address	Maurice Salles (Université de Caen Normandie)
Arrow Lecture	Matthew Jackson (Stanford University)
Condorcet Lecture	Claude d'Aspremont (Université catholique de Louvain)
Prize Lectures	Lars Ehlers (Université de Montréal), Adam Meirowitz* (Princeton University) *SCW Prize but no lecture

July 2010 - HSE – Moscow

Organized by Fuad Aleskerov

Lecture	Speaker
Presidential Address	John Roemer (Yale University)
Arrow Lecture	Marc Fleurbaey (Université Paris Descartes)
Condorcet Lecture	Walter Bossert (Université de Montréal)
Prize Lectures	Christian List (LSE), Franz Dietrich (Maastricht University)

June 2008 - Montréal

Organized by Effrosyni Diamantoudi, Lars Ehlers, Dipjyoti Majumdar and Szilvia Papai

Lecture	Speaker
Presidential Address	John Weymark (Vanderbilt University)
Arrow Lecture	David Donaldson (University of British Columbia)
Condorcet Lecture	Bhaskar Dutta (University of Warwick)
Prize Lecture	Tayfun Sönmez (Boston College)

July 2006 - Istanbul

Organized by Remzi Sanver, Istanbul Bilgi University

Lecture	Speaker
Presidential Address	Prasanta Pattanaik (University of California, Riverside)
Arrow Lecture	Eric Maskin (Institute for Advanced Study)
Condorcet Lecture	Donald Saari (University of California, Irvine)
Murat Sertel lecture	Michel Balinski (Ecole Polytechnique)
Prize Lecture	John Duggan (University of Rochester)

July 2004 – Osaka

Organized by Tatsuyoshi Saijo

Lecture	Speaker
Presidential Address	William Thomson (University of Rochester)
Arrow Lecture	Charles Blackorby (University of Warwick)
Condorcet Lecture	Peyton Young (Johns Hopkins University)
Nobel Lecture	Amartya Sen (Harvard University)
Prize Lecture	François Maniquet (Université catholique de Louvain)

July 2002 – Pasadena

Organized by Matthew Jackson, Californian Institue of Technology
Full program

Lecture	Speaker
Presidential Address	Salvador Barberà (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
Arrow Lecture	Prasanta Pattanaik (University of California, Riverside)
Condorcet Lecture	David Austen-Smith (Northwestern University)
Prize Lecture	Matthew Jackson (California Institute of Technology)

June 2000 - Alicante

Organized by Carmen Herrero, Universidad de Alicante
Full program

Lecture	Speaker
Presidential Address	Kotaro Suzumura (Hitotsubashi University)
Arrow Lecture	John Roemer (University of California, Davis)
Condorcet Lecture	William Thomson (University of Rochester)
Plenary Lecture	Salvador Barberà (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)

July 1998 – Vancouver

Organized by John Weymark
Full program

Lecture	Speaker
Presidential Address	Hervé Moulin (Rice University)
Keynote Lecture	Allan Gibbard (University of Michigan)
Keynote Lecture	Mark Satterthwaite (Northwestern University)
Keynote Lecture	James Mirrlees (Cambridge University)

June 1996 – Maastricht

Organized by Hans Peters, Masstricht University
Full program

Lecture	Speaker
Presidential Address	John Harsanyi (University of California, Berkeley)
Plenary Lecture	Hervé Moulin (Rice University)
Plenary Lecture	Kotaro Suzumura (Hitotsubashi University)
Plenary Lecture	Amartya Sen (Harvard University)

July 1994 - Rochester

Organized by William Thomson, University of Rochester
Full program

Lecture	Speaker
Presidential Address	Amartya Sen (Harvard University)
Keynote Lecture	John Harsanyi (University of California, Berkeley)
Keynote Lecture	Leonid Hurwicz (University of Minnesota)

June 1992 – Caen

Organized by Maurice Salles, University of Caen
Full program

Lecture	Speaker
Presidential Address	Kenneth Arrow (Stanford University)
Special Lecture	Amartya Sen (Harvard University)

2022 Meeting of the Society for Social Choice and Welfare

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The 16th Meeting of the Society for Social Choice and Welfare was held in Mexico City on June 22-25, 2022. It was jointly organized by El Colegio de Mexico, CIDE, ITAM, and UNAM, in partnership with UNDP.

The co-chairs of the organization committee were David Cantala, Kaniska Dam, Diego Dominguez, Andrei Gomberg, Francisco Carmona, and Javier Nuñez.

Presidential Address: Marc Fleurbaey (Paris School of Economics)
Condorcet Lecture: Szilvia Pápai (Concordia University)
Arrow Lecture: Federico Echenique (Caltech)
SCW Prize Winner lectures: Jamie Morgenstern (University of Washington) and Gabriel Caroll (University of Toronto)

More information can be found on the webpage of the conference.