*Refereed papers
* Gotoh, R. "Can we draw a "realistic utopia" toward publicly reciprocal welfare state? - A comparison of welfare programs between Japan and USA,” Social Work and Society International Online Journal, Vol 16, No 2, pp.1-11, 2018.
* Gotoh, R. "What political liberalism and the welfare state left behind: chance and gratitude", Hans-Uwe Otto，M. Walker and H. Ziegler (eds.), Capability Promoting Policies Enhancing individual and social development, Policy Press, pp.23-41, 2017.
* Gotoh, R. “A Coherent Goals-Rights System in the Light of Political Liberalism,” Ritsumeikan Studies in Language and Culture 28-1, pp.171-182, 2016.
*Gotoh, R. “What Japan Has Left Behind in the Course of Establishing a Welfare State,” Proto Sociology, Vol.32, pp.106-122, 2015.
R. Gotoh, “Capability Approach to the Equality of Differences and the Problem of Adaptive Preference--Focusing on Individual Positionality and Individuality”, K. Nakatogawa, L. de Tienda Palop, Y. Mitsuke, Y. Fukayama (eds.), Discussing Capabilities, Emotions and Values: A Cross-Cultural Perspective, Group in Logic, pp.9-28, 2015.
*Gotoh, R. "Arrow, Rawls and Sen: The Transformation of Political Economics and the Idea of Liberalism," Dumouchel P. and R. Gotoh (eds.), Social Bonds as Freedom: Revisiting the Dichotomy of the Universal and the Particular, Berghahn Books, pp.259-284, 2015.
*Gotoh, R. “The equality of the differences: Sen’s critique of Rawls’s theory of justice and its implication for welfare economics,” History of Economic Ideas, XXII, 133-155, 2014.
*Gotoh, R. "Justice as Reciprocity Reexamined in the Context of Catastrophe," Ritsumeikan Studies in Language and Culture, Ritsumeikan University, Vol.24-4, pp.33-42, 2013.
*Gotoh, R. "Justice and Public Reciprocity," Gotoh R. and P. Dumouchel (eds.) Against Injustice? The New Economics of Amartya Sen, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp.140-160, 2009.
Gotoh, R. "Well-Being Freedom and The Possibility of Public-Provision Unit in Global Context," Ethics and Economics, vol.2, pp.1-17, 2004.
Gotoh, R. “The Capability Theory and Welfare Reform,” Pacific Economic Review Vol.6-2, pp.211-222, 2001.