The rapid spread of large-scale and innovative social transfers in the develo** world has
made a key contribution to the significant reduction in global poverty over the last decade …

Some people are worse off than others. Does this fact give rise to moral concern?
Egalitarianism claims that it does, for a wide array of reasons. It is one of the most important …

In our lives, we aim to achieve welfare for ourselves, that is, to live good lives. But we also
have another, more impartial perspective, where we aim to balance our concern for our own …

In this article, the author discusses distributive justice and the sufficiency principle. The
author explains the sufficiency principle as that level of welfare at which a person feels …

How should we decide which inequalities between people are justified, and which are
unjustified? One answer is that such inequalities are only justified where there is a …

The social cost of carbon (SCC) is a key tool in climate policy. The SCC expresses in
monetary terms the social impact of the emission of a ton of CO2 in a given year. The SCC is …

Few philosophical movements can have had anything like as great an influence on the
mainstream economics profession as that of logical positivism from the 1930s until quite …

This paper aims to illuminate some issues in the equality, priority, or what debate. I
characterize egalitarianism and prioritarianism, respond to the view that we should care …

The rationing of health care is universal and inevitable, taking place in both poor and
affluent countries, in publicly funded and private health care systems. Someone must budget …

1. Unless we indicate otherwise, it should be assumed that the health states we refer to in
this article will last from early adulthood until the end of the lives of individuals with equally …