The Theory of Taxation and Public Economics ( Princeton University Press, 2008) [Amazon (purchase)]

Fairness Versus Welfare. (with Steven Shavell) (Harvard University Press, 2002; Chinese translation, Law Press China, 2007). [Amazon (purchase)]

Pareto Principle and Competing Principles, in The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd Edition (2008). [Olin Center WP]

Moral Rules, the Moral Sentiments, and Behavior: Toward a Theory of an Optimal Moral System. (with Steven Shavell) 115 Journal of Political Economy 494 (2007).

Primary Goods, Capabilities, or ...Well-Being? 116 Philosophical Review 603 (2007). [Olin Center WP]

Discounting Dollars, Discounting Lives: Intergenerational Distributive Justice and Efficiency. 74 University of Chicago Law Review 79 (2007). [WWW] [NBER WP] [Olin Center WP]

Choosing Expensive Tastes. 36 Canadian Journal of Philosophy 415 (2007). [Olin Center WP]

Why Measure Inequality? 3 Journal of Economic Inequality 65 (2005). [NBER WP] [Olin Center WP]

Notes on Welfarist versus Deontological Principles (reply) (with Steven Shavell). 20 Economics and Philosophy 209 (2004). [WWW] [Olin Center WP]

Any Non-welfarist Method of Policy Assessment Violates the Pareto Principle: Reply (with Steven Shavell). 112 Journal of Political Economy 249 (2004). [WWW] [Olin Center WP]

Fairness versus Welfare: Notes on the Pareto Principle, Preferences, and Distributive Justice (with Steven Shavell) 32 Journal of Legal Studies 331 (2003). [WWW] [NBER WP] [Olin Center WP]

Horizontal Equity: New Measures, Unclear Principles (Commentary), in Inequality and Tax Policy. (Hassett & Hubbard, eds., American Enterprise Institute, 2001), pp. 75-97. [NBER] [Olin Center WP]

Any Non-Welfarist Method of Policy Assessment Violates the Pareto Principle, (with Steven Shavell). 109 Journal of Political Economy 281 (2001). [WWW] [NBER WP - Any Non-Individualistic Social Welfare Function Violates the Pareto Principle ] [Olin Center WP - Any Non-Individualistic Social Welfare Function Violates the Pareto Principle]

Fairness versus Welfare (with Steven Shavell). 114 Harvard Law Review 961 (2001). [Olin Center WP - Principles of Fairness versus Human Welfare: On the Evaluation of Legal Policy]

Notions of Fairness Versus the Pareto Principle: On the Role of Logical Consistency (with Steven Shavell). 110 Yale Law Journal 237 (2000). [WWW] [Olin Center WP]

The Conflict between Notions of Fairness and the Pareto Principle (with Steven Shavell). 1 American Law and Economic Review 63 (1999). [WWW] [Olin Center WP]

A Fundamental Objection to Tax Equity Norms: A Call for Utilitarianism. 48 National Tax Journal 497 (1995). [NBER WP]

A Note on Horizontal Equity. 1 Florida Tax Review 191 (1992).

Horizontal Equity: Measures in Search of a Principle, 42 National Tax Journal 139 (1989). [NBER WP]

Optimal Transition Policy: Replacing Horizontal Equity with an Ex Ante Incentives Perspective, Dissertation accepted by Harvard University Department of Economics (1987).

All Individuals May Be Made Worse Off under Any Nonwelfarist Principle (with Steven Shavell) [Olin Center WP]

Human Nature and the Best Consequentialist Moral System (with Steven Shavell) [Olin Center WP]