Welfare economics

TagLast edit: 27 Jan 2021 13:21 UTC by Pablo

Welfare economics is the branch of economics that seeks to evaluate policies in terms of their effects on wellbeing.

[Question] Is anyone here a philosopher or economist working on the interpersonal comparison problem?

Philosophy Bear14 Jan 2023 7:07 UTC

18 points

7 comments1 min readEA link

Welfare Estimation 201: Understanding Life-Valuation Variability

Richard Bruns10 Feb 2022 19:49 UTC

13 points

1 comment11 min readEA link

Animals in Cost-Benefit Analysis

Vasco Grilo🔸25 Apr 2024 16:43 UTC

39 points

3 comments1 min readEA link

(papers.ssrn.com)

Is it time for development economists to start considering the welfare of non-human animals?

Forumite9 Jul 2024 16:15 UTC

16 points

1 comment1 min readEA link

Altruism and Development—It’s complicated...

DavidNash12 Dec 2022 16:48 UTC

45 points

3 comments5 min readEA link

(srajagopalan.substack.com)

[Question] Studies / reports on increased wellbeing for extreme poor

Aryeh Englander15 Jul 2021 13:47 UTC

5 points

1 comment1 min readEA link

Economics, prioritisation, and pro-rich bias

John G. Halstead2 Jan 2018 22:33 UTC

5 points

21 comments5 min readEA link

Smart Movements Start Academic Disciplines

ColdButtonIssues25 Sep 2022 15:58 UTC

121 points

18 comments5 min readEA link

Critique of OpenPhil’s macroeconomic policy advocacy

Hauke Hillebrandt24 Mar 2022 22:03 UTC

142 points

39 comments24 min readEA link

Call for Abstracts: Economics of Animal Welfare Conference @ Paris School of Economics

Bob Fischer23 Oct 2024 12:23 UTC

24 points

2 comments1 min readEA link

Valuing Leisure Time

Richard Bruns21 Apr 2022 16:17 UTC

24 points

5 comments9 min readEA link

Reducing Transaction Costs, or Coasean Effective Altruism

IvanVendrov31 May 2021 1:11 UTC

23 points

0 comments4 min readEA link

Fairtrade and its criticism

mbb2982838215 Sep 2021 14:20 UTC

3 points

1 comment1 min readEA link

The Wages of North-Atlantic Bias

Sach Wry19 Aug 2022 12:34 UTC

8 points

2 comments17 min readEA link

[Question] Issues with Using Willingness-to-Pay as a Primary Tool for Welfare Analysis

charrin26 Jun 2021 7:26 UTC

30 points

9 comments1 min readEA link

Doing “good”

P. Chvykov5 Apr 2022 11:11 UTC

5 points

0 comments2 min readEA link

The two-tiered society

Roman Leventov13 May 2024 7:53 UTC

14 points

5 comments1 min readEA link

What you really mean when you claim to support “UBI for job automation”: Part 1

Deric Cheng14 May 2024 8:26 UTC

18 points

1 comment10 min readEA link

Mortality Cost of Taxation

Richard Bruns9 Sep 2024 19:27 UTC

1 point

2 comments3 min readEA link

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