Prioritization research asks lots of different types of questions (moral and empirical, theoretical and applied). First, Max Dalton argues that economics can provide a structure for thinking about these prioritization problems. This highlights that prioritization is even more difficult than it might intuitively seem. Second, economics could benefit from being a bit more like prioritization research. In particular, it should be more strategic in the ways it simplifies things.

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