Activities in the past

2022

  • Jan 8, 2022: "Vaccination and altruism under the COVID-19 pandemic" (with Takashi Iida, Kenji Ishida, Asei Ito, Hiroto Katsumata, Kenneth Mori McElwain, and Masahiro Shoji) has been accepted by Public Health in Practice.

  • Jan 14 2022: "Stable preference aggregation with infinite population" has been accepted by Social Choice and Welfare.

  • Jan 26, 2022: A talk by Roberto Fumagalli [King's College London] is organized (chair Akira Inoue).

  • May 1, 2022: "Kokyo" (Public) (a textbook for Japanese highschool students) is published from Tokyo-Shoseki (I work as one of the authors).

  • May 1, 2022: Information about "Seiji-Keizai" (Politics and Economy) (a textbook for Japanese highschool students) is available from Tokyo-Shoseki (I work as one of the authors).

  • May 6, 2022: "Generalized poverty-gap orderings" (joint work with Walter Bossert and Kohei Kamaga) has been accepted by Social Indicators Research. [Open Access]

  • May 13, 2022: A new discussion paper, entitled "Are good leaders truly good?," is available (joint work with Akira Inoue).

  • May 13, 2022: A new discussion paper, entitled "Strategic crackdown on organized crime by local governments," is available (joint work with Ken Yahagi).

  • May 17-18, 2022: A talk in Incommensurability and Population-level bioethics at Rutgers University. The title is "The sufficientarian principle and incommensurability."

  • May 17, 2022: "Thresholds, critical levels, and generalized sufficientarian principles" (a joint work with Walter Bossert and Kohei Kamaga) has been accepted by Economic Theory. [Open Access]

  • May 19, 2022: A new discussion paper, entitled "Infection control, personal estimations, and the ethics of testing during COVID-19 pandemic," is available (joint work with Shu Ishida).

  • May 20, 2022: A talk by my co-author, Akifumi Ishihara, at the Osaka Workshop on Economics of Institutions and Organizations ("Employee Referrals and Incentive Schemes").

  • May 22, 2022: A 5-min research proposal at the Japanese Life Course Panel Surveys (JLPS) workshop (first meeting of 2022).

  • June 2, 2022: A talk by my co-author, Stéphane Gonzalez, at Aix-Marseille School of Economics ("Proportional methods for certification").

  • June 10, 2022: A new discussion paper, entitled "Multi-species population ethics with critical levels," is available (joint work with Shu Ishida).

  • June 11, 2022: "Mobile health technology as a solution to self-control problems: the behavioral impact of COVID-19 contact tracing apps in Japan" (Masahiro Shoji, Susumu Cato, Takashi Iida, Kenji Ishida, Asei Ito, Hiroto Katsumata, and Kenneth Mori McElwain) has been accepted for publication in Social Science and Medicine.

  • June 30, 2022: A dialogue on deliberative democracy (with Tetsuki Tamura, Shinichi Tabata, and Shigeki Uno). The event is held in the ISS.

  • July 12, 2022: A talk by my co-author, Stéphane Gonzalez, at SING 17 (17th European Meeting on Game Theory). The title is "Proportional methods for certification."

  • July 15, 2022: "Understanding the function of a social business ecosystem" (with Hiroki Nakamura) has been accepted for publication in Sustainability.

  • July 18, 2022: "Revisiting variable-value population principles" (with Walter Bossert and Kohei Kamaga) has been accepted for publication in Economics and Philosophy.

  • Aug 8, 2022: "The trade-off between the repugnant and sadistic conclusions under Population axiology and separability of people’s lives" in Kyoto University (Workshop on Principles for Sustainability).

  • Aug 27, 2022: A talk in the Japanese Association for Mathematical Sociology (in Japanese). This is about estimation of inequality in the Edo period.

  • Aug 31, 2022: A 20-min talk in a meeting of the KAKENHI project "Politics, Philosophy, and Economics in Rawls's Theory of Justice" (in Japanese). This is a book review of "John Rawls" by Junichi Saito and Masato Tanaka, who joined the meeting.

  • Sept 17, 2022: A talk in Re-examining Anarchy, State, and Utopia (September 15-16, Université de Fribourg). My coauthor, Hun Chung, will present our paper, entitled "Nozick’s framework for utopia."

  • Oct 4, 2022:

  • Oct 18, 2022: A dialogue on liberalism (with Tomohito Baji, Sung-eun Cho, and Shigeki Uno). The event is held in the ISS.

  • Nov 13, 2022: A panel discussion in Japan Law and Economics Association. This is about COVID-19 policies and legal systems.

  • Nov 15, 2022: An online workshop in Tohoku University. This is organized by Yoshimichi Sato.

  • Nov 25, 2022: A talk by my co-author, Stéphane Gonzalez, at the workshop on "cooperative models in games and social choice," which is organized for GdR jeux by CRESE in Besançon on November 24-25, 2022.

  • Dec 4, 2022: "When is weak Pareto equivalent to strong Pareto?" has been accepted for publication in Economics Letters.

  • Dec 16, 2022: A dialogue on libertarianism (with Iwao Hirose, Susumu Morimura, and Shigeki Uno). The event is held in the ISS.

  • Dec 21, 2022: "Are good leaders truly good?" (with Akira Inoue) has been accepted by Analysis.

  • Dec 27, 2022: A COVID-19 workshop in Tohoku University.


2021

  • June 24, 2021: A talk in a workshop for competition law. The title is " the conception of competition" In Japanese.

  • July 27, 2021: A talk in a workshop in Development Bank of Japan. The title is "the role of altruism and liberties under the COVID-19 pandemic." In Japanese. Akira Inoue joined it as a discussant.

  • Aug 19, 2021: Prosociality and the uptake of COVID-19 contact tracing apps: survey analysis of intergenerational differences in Japan (with Masahiro Shoji, Takashi Iida, Kenji Ishida, Asei Ito, Hiroto Katsumata, and Kenneth Mori McElwain) has been published in JMIR ｍHealth uHealth.

  • Sept 14, 2021: A talk in Workshop on Governance for a Sustainable Future (organized Yukio Adachi and Makoto Usami). In English.

  • Oct 29, 2021: A talk with Alan Hájek in the ANU - UTokyo Dialogue on Post-Covid Society 2021. A chair is Akira Inoue.

  • Nov 5, 2021: Critical-level sufficientarianism (with Walter Bossert and Kohei Kamaga) is accepted by the Journal of Political Philosophy.

  • Nov 5, 2021: Infinite-population approval voting: A proposal (with Philippe Solal and Eric Rémila) is accepted by Synthese.

  • Nov 9, 2021: A chair of ISS workshop (a talk by Shigeki Uno)

  • Nov 19, 2021: A talk in The Japan Economic Research Institute. The title is "Understanding management and social problems from the viewpoint of public philosophy." In Japanese.

  • Nov 10, 2021: Variations in early-stage responses to pandemics: survey evidence from the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan" (with Masahiro Shoji, Takashi Iida, Kenji Ishida, Asei Ito, and Kenneth Mori McElwain) is accepted by Economics of Disasters and Climate Change.

  • Nov 10, 2021: Social media infodemics and social distancing under the COVID-19 pandemic: public good provisions under uncertainty (with Takashi Iida, Kenji Ishida, Asei Ito, Hiroto Katsumata, Kenneth Mori McElwain, and Masahiro Shoji) is accepted by Global Health Action.

  • Nov 17, 2021: A new book, "The “Human Condition” in the Age of Digitalization" (with Asei Ito, Kenji Ishida, and Takashi Iida: in Japanese), will be published by Chikuma Shobo.

  • Nov 19, 2021: A talk at an event of The Japan Economic Research Institute.

  • Nov 22, 2021: A talk in Cell Community Workshop in Osaka University.

  • Dec 13, 2021: Symposium, "Thinking about Japanese-style innovation in a maturing society", organized by Institute of Social Science and Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo. Joining as a discussant. In Japanese.

  • Dec 17, 2021: "Libertarian Approaches to the COVID-19 Pandemic" (joint work with Akira Inoue) is accepted by Bioethics.

  • Dec 21, 2021: Workshop for Rawlsian Political Philosophy as a part of "Methodology of social sciences: how to measure phenomena and values" in Institute of Social Science. In Japanese.

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