Disputes over government policies rage in a number of areas. From taxation to climate
change, from public finance to risk regulation, and from health care to infrastructure …

Two recent papers argue that many results based on ordinal reports of happiness can be
reversed with suitable monotonic increasing transformations of the associated happiness …

Prediction algorithms are regularly used to support and automate high-stakes policy
decisions about the allocation of scarce public resources. However, data-driven decision …

Some people end up worse off than others partly because of their bad luck. For instance,
some die young due to a genetic disease, whereas others live long lives. Are such …

Prioritarianism holds that improvements in someone's life (gains in well-being) are morally
more valuable, the worse off the person would otherwise be. The doctrine is impartial …

The advent of powerful prediction algorithms led to increased automation of high-stake
decisions regarding the allocation of scarce resources such as government spending and …

All over the world, private and public institutions have been attracted to “nudges,”
understood as interventions that preserve freedom of choice, but that steer people in …

The standard version of sufficientarianism maintains that providing people with enough, or
as close to enough as is possible, is lexically prior to other distributive goals. This article …

I. INTRODUCTION SUFFICIENTARIANISM is a general class of distributional principles that
assign absolute priority to those below a threshold level that represents a minimally …

This chapter provides theoretical foundations for the Prioritarianism in Practice volume. It
does so by analyzing the features of prioritarian social welfare functions (SWFs). A …