| Date | Lecturer | Topic | Readings | Seminars |
| 19.01.2015 | Jo | Intro | Cowell (2000), Lamont and Favor (2014) Kymlicka (2002) |
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| 26.01.2015 | Paolo | Welfare economics | Sen (2011) | |
| 02.02.2015 | Paolo | Arrow’s general possibility theorem | Sen (2011) | |
| 09.02.2015 | Paolo | Arrow’s general possibility theorem | Sen (2011) | |
| 16.02.2015 | Lecture free week | |||
| 23.02.2015 | Paolo | The Social Welfare Functionals | d’Aspremont and Gevers (2002) | |
| 02.03.2015 | Rolf | The primal approach | Atkinson (1970) | |
| 09.03.2015 | Paolo | The Social Welfare Functionals | d’Aspremont and Gevers (2002) | |
| 16.03.2015 | Rolf | The primal approach | Atkinson (1970) | Seminar 3 (data) |
| 23.03.2015 | Rolf | The dual approach | Yaari (1988), Aaberge (2000, 2001, 2009 (Sections 1 and 2)), Aaberge, Havnes and Mogstad (2013) | |
| 30.03.2015 | Easter | |||
| 06.04.2015 | Easter | |||
| 13.04.2015 | Rolf | The dual approach | Seminar 4 | |
| 20.04.2015 | Jo | Poverty and miserliness | Lind and Moene (2011) Axioms |
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| 27.04.2015 | Jo | Explaining changing inequality: Skill biased tech change, Piketty&friends | Piketty et al. (2014), Autor et al. (2003), Autor (2014) | Seminar 5 |
| 04.05.2015 | Jo | Measuring unfair inequality | Alm?s et al. (2011) | Seminar 6: Mock exam |
Notice: The lecture plan is tentative and changes may occur
Additional non-compulsory readings are given in italics