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SUMMARY:CSER Public Lecture: Matthew Adler: Measuring Social Welfare - Mat
 thew Adler (Duke University)
DTSTART:20200604T163000Z
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CONTACT:Clare Arnstein
DESCRIPTION:Matthew D. Adler is the Richard A. Horvitz Professor of Law an
 d Professor of Economics\, Philosophy and Public Policy at Duke University
 .   He also holds a 3-year position as the Ludwig M. Lachmann Professorial
  Research Fellow at the London School of Economics.  He is an editor of th
 e journal Economics and Philosophy.\n\nAdler’s scholarship is interdisci
 plinary\, drawing from welfare economics\, normative ethics\, and legal th
 eory.  His current research agenda focuses on “prioritarianism”—a re
 finement to utilitarianism that gives extra weight (“priority”) to the
  worse off. He writes about the theoretical foundations of prioritarianism
 \; its implementation as a policy analysis methodology\, in the form of a 
 “social welfare function” or cost-benefit analysis with distributional
  weights\; and its application to a variety of policy domains\, including 
 climate change\, risk regulation\, and health policy.   \n\nAdler is the a
 uthor of numerous articles and several monographs\, including New Foundati
 ons of Cost-Benefit Analysis (Harvard\, 2006\; co-authored with Eric Posne
 r)\; Well-Being and Fair Distribution: Beyond Cost-Benefit Analysis (Oxfor
 d\, 2012)\; and Measuring Social Welfare: An Introduction (Oxford\, 2019).
  With Marc Fleurbaey\, he edited the Oxford Handbook of Well-Being and Pub
 lic Policy (2016). Along with Ole Norheim\, he is the co-founder of the Pr
 ioritarianism in Practice Research Network\, whose work will appear in an 
 edited volume\, Prioritarianism in Practice (under contract\, Cambridge Un
 iversity Press).\n\nHis lecture will be about Measuring Social Welfare\, a
  systematic overview of the social-welfare-function framework\, with parti
 cular reference to prioritarianism.
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