Neben vielen Artikeln in wissenschaftlichen Zeitschriften veröffentlichte Roemer:
Bücher
U.S.-Japanese Competition in International Markets. A Study of the Trade-Investment Cycle in Modern Capitalism (= Research series. Institute of International Studies. University of California, Berkeley, Band 22). Institute of International Studies, Berkeley 1975, ISBN 0-87725-122-3, zugleich Dissertation, University of California, Berkeley 1974.
Analytical Foundations of Marxian Economic Theory. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge [u.a.] 1981, ISBN 0-521-23047-0.
A General Theory of Exploitation and Class. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass. [u.a.] 1982, ISBN 0-674-34440-5.
Value, Exploitation, and Class (= Fundamentals of pure and applied economics, Band 4). Harwood Academic Publishers, Chur [u.a.] 1986, ISBN 3-7186-0278-4.
Free to Lose. An Introduction to Marxist Economic Philosophy. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass. 1988, ISBN 0-674-31875-7.
Egalitarian Perspectives. Essays in Philosophical Economics. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge [u.a.] 1994, ISBN 0-521-45066-7.
A Future for Socialism. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass. 1994, ISBN 0-674-33945-2.
Theories of Distributive Justice. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass. [u.a.] 1996, ISBN 0-674-87919-8.
Equality of Opportunity. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass. [u.a.] 1998, ISBN 0-674-25991-2.
Political Competition. Theory and Applications. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass. [u.a.] 2001, ISBN 0-674-00488-4.
Democracy, Education and Equality (= Econometric Society monographs, Band 40). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge [u.a.] 2006, ISBN 0-521-84665-X.
mit Woojin Lee und Karine van der Straeten: Racism, xenophobia, and distribution. Multi-issue politics in advanced democracies. Russell Sage Foundation [u.a.], New York 2007, ISBN 978-0-674-02495-3.
Herausgeberschaft
Analytical Marxism. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge [u.a.] 1986, ISBN 0-521-30025-8.
mit Jon Elster: Interpersonal Comparisons of Well-Being. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge [u.a.] 1991, ISBN 0-521-39274-8.
mit David Copp und Jean Hampton: The Idea of Democracy. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge [u.a.] 1993, ISBN 0-521-43254-5.
mit Pranab K. Bardhan: Market Socialism: The Current Debate. Oxford University Press, New York [u.a.] 1993, ISBN 0-19-508049-1.
Foundations of Analytical Marxism (= The international library of critical writings in economics, Band 36). 2 Bände, Edward Elgar Publishers, Aldershot, Hants [u.a.] 1994, ISBN 1-85278-784-8.
mit Erik O. Wright: Equal Shares. Making Market Socialism Work (= The real Utopias project, Band 2). Verso, London 1996, ISBN 1-85984-933-4.
Property relations, incentives, and welfare (= IEA conference volume, Band 115). Macmillan [u.a.], Basingstoke, Hampshire [u.a.] 1997, ISBN 0-333-62307-X.
mit Kotaro Suzumura: Intergenerational equity and sustainability (= IEA conference volume, Band 143). Palgrave, Basingstoke, Hampshire [u.a.] 2007, ISBN 0-230-00786-4.
Artikel (Auswahl)
Origins of Exploitation and Class: Value Theory of Pre-Capitalist Economy. In: Econometrica. Band 50, Nr. 1, Januar 1982, S. 163–192.
Exploitation, Alternatives and Socialism. In: Economic Journal. Band 92, Nr. 365, März 1982, S. 87–107.
Rationalizing Revolutionary Ideology. In: Econometrica. Band 53, Nr. 1, Januar 1985, S. 85–108.
Axiomatic bargaining theory on economic environments. In: Journal of Economic Theory. Band 45, Nr. 1, Juni 1988, S. 1–31.
mit Herve Moulin: Public Ownership of the External World and Private Ownership of Self. In: Journal of Political Economy. Band 97, Nr. 2, April 1989, S. 347–367.
A Pragmatic Theory of Responsibility for the Egalitarian Planner. In: Philosophy and Public Affairs. Band 22, 1993, S. 146–166.
mit Joaquim Silvestre: The Proportional Solution for Economies with Both Private and Public Ownership. In: Journal of Economic Theory. Band 59, Nr. 2, April, 1993, S. 426–444.
On the relationship between economic development and political democracy. In: Review of Economic Design. Band 1, Nr. 1, Dezember 1994, S. 15–39.
The Strategic Role of Party Ideology When Voters are Uncertain About How the Economy Works Export. In: The American Political Science Review. Band 88, Nr. 2, 1994, S. 327–335.
The Democratic Political Economy of Progressive Income Taxation. In: Econometrica. Band 67, Nr. 1, Januar 1999, S. 1–20.
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Who’s Who in America 2008. Band 2, New Providence 2007, ISSN0083-9396, S. 3962
Mark Blaug (Hrsg.): Who’s Who in economics. 3. Auflage, Elgar, Cheltenham und Northampton 1999, ISBN 1-85898-886-1, S. 946
The International Who’s Who 1997–98. 61. Ausgabe, Europa Publications Limited, London 1997, ISBN 1-85743-022-0, S. 1281