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

A new way to estimate welfare growth

trammell12 Sep 2025 16:37 UTC

17 points

0 comments3 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)

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

DavidNash12 Dec 2022 16:48 UTC

45 points

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(srajagopalan.substack.com)

Animal Welfare Economics Conference @ PSE: Registration Open

Bob Fischer16 Apr 2025 10:26 UTC

20 points

5 comments1 min readEA link

Smart Movements Start Academic Disciplines

ColdButtonIssues25 Sep 2022 15:58 UTC

121 points

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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

Welfare Estimation 201: Understanding Life-Valuation Variability

Richard Bruns10 Feb 2022 19:49 UTC

21 points

1 comment11 min readEA link

Eating Honey is (Probably) Fine, Actually

Linch2 Jul 2025 22:08 UTC

138 points

16 comments3 min readEA link

(linch.substack.com)

Critique of OpenPhil’s macroeconomic policy advocacy

Hauke Hillebrandt24 Mar 2022 22:03 UTC

143 points

39 comments24 min readEA link

Individuation is a Key Challenge in Animal Welfare Technology

Vasco Grilo🔸29 May 2025 17:06 UTC

15 points

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(optimistsbarn.substack.com)

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

Aryeh Englander15 Jul 2021 13:47 UTC

5 points

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Economics, prioritisation, and pro-rich bias

John G. Halstead2 Jan 2018 22:33 UTC

5 points

21 comments5 min readEA link

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

Bob Fischer23 Oct 2024 12:23 UTC

28 points

2 comments1 min readEA link

[Question] Favourite writing on prioritisation?

ddavies20 Oct 2025 10:11 UTC

4 points

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Valuing Leisure Time

Richard Bruns21 Apr 2022 16:17 UTC

26 points

5 comments9 min readEA link

Mortality Cost of Taxation

Richard Bruns9 Sep 2024 19:27 UTC

23 points

8 comments3 min readEA link

The two-tiered society

Roman Leventov13 May 2024 7:53 UTC

14 points

5 comments3 min readEA link

Some Loopholes in the Impossibility Theorem for Welfare Axiology

wallower1 Mar 2025 19:44 UTC

1 point

0 comments1 min readEA link

(philarchive.org)

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

charrin26 Jun 2021 7:26 UTC

31 points

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The Wages of North-Atlantic Bias

Sach Wry19 Aug 2022 12:34 UTC

8 points

2 comments17 min readEA link

[Question] Help me understand the case for ethical killing

fx🔸29 Oct 2025 16:32 UTC

6 points

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

Deric Cheng14 May 2024 8:26 UTC

22 points

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Fairtrade and its criticism

mbb2982838215 Sep 2021 14:20 UTC

3 points

1 comment1 min readEA link

Reducing Transaction Costs, or Coasean Effective Altruism

IvanVendrov31 May 2021 1:11 UTC

23 points

0 comments4 min readEA link

Meat Taxes Are Super Risky. Maybe We Can Make Them Work

Björn 🔹13 Aug 2025 10:05 UTC

25 points

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Doing “good”

P. Chvykov5 Apr 2022 11:11 UTC

5 points

0 comments2 min readEA link

My Perspective on Happiness

David Hammerle19 Mar 2025 0:13 UTC

1 point

0 comments11 min readEA link

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