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 …

Prioritarianism is a moral view that ranks outcomes according to the sum of a strictly
increasing and strictly concave transformation of individual well-being. Prioritarianism is …

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 …

I defend a weak version of the Pigou–Dalton principle for chances. The principle says that it
is better to increase the survival chance of a person who is more likely to die rather than a …

Introduction Capability-adjusted life years Sweden (CALY-SWE) are a new Swedish
questionnaire-based measure for quality of life based on the capability approach. CALY …

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 …

This is a paper about the methodology of normative ethics. I claim that much work in
normative ethics can be interpreted as modelling, the form of inquiry familiar from science …

The history of philosophical discussions about human nature and justice are replete with
references to our human needs. 1 Many philosophers believed that what we need to live …

I. INTRODUCTION ACCORDING to prioritarianism, roughly, we should give priority to the
worse off in the distribution of benefits. This statement of the principle does not tell us …

The shipping industry is facing a shortage of seafarers and a high turnover rate which
highlights the critical importance of seafarers' job satisfaction and commitment. This study …