Matthew D. Adler, Well-Being and Fair Distribution: Beyond Cost-Benefit Analysis

Matthew D. Adler: Well-being and fair distribution: beyond cost-benefit analysis

In this extraordinarily thorough and thoughtful work, Matthew Adler proves himself a grandmaster of the moral evaluation of public policy. The core idea of the book is that large-scale public policies should be designed to maximize the expectation of a continuous prioritarian social welfare function (SWF). In other words, they should maximize the expectation of the sum-total of transformed indi...

Social Choice and Welfare Review of Matthew D. Adler: Well-Being and Fair Distribution: Beyond Cost-Benefit Analysis

Manuscript Number: Full Title: Review of Matthew D. Adler: Well-Being and Fair Distribution: Beyond Cost-Benefit Analysis Article Type: Book review Corresponding Author: Alex Voorhoeve, Ph.D. LSE London, UNITED KINGDOM Corresponding Author Secondary Information: Corresponding Author's Institution: LSE Corresponding Author's Secondary Institution: First Author: Alex Voorhoeve, Ph.D. First Author...

Review of Matthew Adler ’ s Well - being and fair distribution : beyond cost - benefit analysis . Oxford : Oxford University

Matthew Adler develops and defends a particular view on how the appraisal of social policies should be performed and in doing so offers a new and refreshing take on the subject of fair distribution. Adler argues for prioritarianism, which, broadly speaking, acknowledges that inequality in the distribution of well being across individuals constitutes an important factor in collective decisionmak...

Well-Being Analysis vs. Cost-Benefit Analysis

Cost-benefit analysis (CBA) is the primary tool used by policymakers to inform administrative decisionmaking. Yet its methodology of converting preferences (often hypothetical ones) into dollar figures, then using those dollar figures as proxies for quality of life, creates significant systemic errors. These problems have been lamented by many scholars, and recent calls have gone out from world...

Well-Being Analysis vs. Cost-Benefit Analysis (with J. Bronsteen & J. Masur) (symposium)