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MichaelPlant

Karma: 9,115

I’m the Director of the Happier Lives Institute and Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Oxford’s Wellbeing Research Centre. I’m a philosopher by background and did my DPhil at Oxford, primarily under the supervision of Peter Singer and Hilary Greaves. I’ve previously worked for an MP and failed to start a start-up.

Wheel­ing and deal­ing: An in­ter­nal bar­gain­ing ap­proach to moral uncertainty

MichaelPlantJul 10, 2022, 12:04 PM
56 points
18 comments23 min readEA link

Will faster eco­nomic growth make us hap­pier? The rele­vance of the Easter­lin Para­dox to Progress Studies

MichaelPlantJun 24, 2022, 12:29 PM
158 points
28 comments21 min readEA link
(www.happierlivesinstitute.org)

Effec­tive al­tru­ism’s odd at­ti­tude to men­tal health

MichaelPlantApr 29, 2022, 8:57 AM
104 points
25 comments2 min readEA link

Hap­piness for the whole house­hold: ac­count­ing for house­hold spillovers when com­par­ing the cost-effec­tive­ness of psy­chother­apy to cash trans­fers

JoelMcGuireApr 14, 2022, 8:05 PM
51 points
1 comment3 min readEA link
(www.happierlivesinstitute.org)

Hap­pier Lives In­sti­tute: 2021 An­nual Review

Barry GrimesApr 14, 2022, 7:55 PM
52 points
2 comments12 min readEA link

HLI Sum­mer Re­search Fellowship

Joy BittnerFeb 21, 2022, 4:11 PM
29 points
0 comments1 min readEA link

Donat­ing money, buy­ing hap­piness: new meta-analy­ses com­par­ing the cost-effec­tive­ness of cash trans­fers and psy­chother­apy in terms of sub­jec­tive well-being

MichaelPlantOct 25, 2021, 3:38 PM
153 points
46 comments18 min readEA link

Can money buy hap­piness? A re­view of new data

JulianHazellJun 28, 2021, 1:48 AM
53 points
11 comments5 min readEA link
(www.givingwhatwecan.org)

End­ing The War on Drugs—A New Cause For Effec­tive Altru­ists?

MichaelPlantMay 6, 2021, 1:18 PM
123 points
20 comments2 min readEA link
(www.newstatesman.com)

2020 An­nual Re­view from the Hap­pier Lives Institute

ClareDonaldsonApr 26, 2021, 1:25 PM
85 points
10 comments19 min readEA link

The Com­pa­ra­bil­ity of Sub­jec­tive Scales

MichaelPlantNov 30, 2020, 4:47 PM
79 points
9 comments4 min readEA link

Life Satis­fac­tion and its Discontents

MichaelPlantSep 25, 2020, 7:54 AM
71 points
24 comments3 min readEA link

Us­ing Sub­jec­tive Well-Be­ing to Es­ti­mate the Mo­ral Weights of Avert­ing Deaths and Re­duc­ing Poverty

MichaelPlantAug 3, 2020, 4:17 PM
98 points
8 comments35 min readEA link

Up­date from the Hap­pier Lives Institute

ClareDonaldsonApr 30, 2020, 3:04 PM
83 points
5 comments7 min readEA link

Un­der­stand­ing and eval­u­at­ing EA’s cause pri­ori­ti­sa­tion methodology

MichaelPlantOct 14, 2019, 7:55 PM
39 points
2 comments19 min readEA link

An­nounc­ing the launch of the Hap­pier Lives Institute

MichaelPlantJun 19, 2019, 3:40 PM
133 points
44 comments4 min readEA link

High-pri­or­ity policy: to­wards a co-or­di­nated plat­form?

MichaelPlantJan 14, 2019, 5:05 PM
31 points
3 comments5 min readEA link

Cause pro­file: men­tal health

MichaelPlantDec 31, 2018, 12:09 PM
147 points
31 comments24 min readEA link

A Hap­piness Man­i­festo: Why and How Effec­tive Altru­ism Should Re­think its Ap­proach to Max­imis­ing Hu­man Welfare

MichaelPlantOct 25, 2018, 3:48 PM
77 points
31 comments39 min readEA link

Ineffec­tive en­trepreneur­ship: post-mortem of Hippo, the hap­piness app that never quite was

MichaelPlantMay 23, 2018, 10:30 AM
92 points
37 comments13 min readEA link