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Welfare economics is the branch of economics that seeks to evaluate policies in terms of their effects on wellbeing.

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Is anyone here a philosopher or economist working on the interpersonal comparison problem?
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Philosophy Bear
· 9mo ago · 1m read
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Critique of OpenPhil's macroeconomic policy advocacy
Hauke Hillebrandt
· 2y ago · 30m read
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Smart Movements Start Academic Disciplines
ColdButtonIssues
· 1y ago · 7m read
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Altruism and Development - It's complicated...
DavidNash
· 10mo ago · 6m read
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Welfare Estimation 201: Understanding Life-Valuation Variability
Richard Bruns
· 2y ago · 13m read
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Studies / reports on increased wellbeing for extreme poor
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Aryeh Englander
· 2y ago · 1m read
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Economics, prioritisation, and pro-rich bias  
John G. Halstead
· 6y ago · 6m read
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Issues with Using Willingness-to-Pay as a Primary Tool for Welfare Analysis
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charrin
· 2y ago · 1m read
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Valuing Leisure Time
Richard Bruns
· 1y ago · 11m read
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Reducing Transaction Costs, or Coasean Effective Altruism
IvanVendrov
· 2y ago · 4m read
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The Wages of North-Atlantic Bias
Sach Wry
· 1y ago · 21m read
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Doing "good"
P. Chvykov
· 1y ago · 2m read
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Fairtrade and its criticism
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· 2y ago · 1m read
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