Directory

Bibliography

Forthcoming

Book Review, Journal of Moral Philosophy (forthcoming) (reviewing Dale Dorsey, The Basic Minimum: A Welfarist Approach (2012))

Works in Progress

A Better Calculus for Regulators: From Cost-Benefit Analysis to the Social Welfare Function (February 25, 2017)
Justice, Claims and Prioritarianism: Room for Desert? (October 24, 2016)
Would You Choose to be Happy? Tradeoffs Between Happiness and the Other Dimensions of Life in a Large Population Survey (August 5, 2015) (with others)
The Pigou-Dalton Principle and the Structure of Distributive Justice (May 1, 2013)

Books

Oxford Handbook of Well-Being and Public Policy (Oxford University Press, 2016) (editor with Marc Fleurbaey)
Well-Being and Fair Distribution: Beyond Cost Benefit Analysis (Oxford University Press, 2012)
The Rule of Recognition and the Constitution (Oxford University Press, 2009) (editor with Kenneth Einar Himma)
New Foundations of Cost-Benefit Analysis (Harvard University Press, 2006) (with Eric A. Posner)
Cost-Benefit Analysis: Legal, Economic, and Philosophical Perspectives (University of Chicago Press, 2000) (editor with Eric Posner)

Articles & Essays

Utilitarianism, Prioritarianism, and Intergenerational Equity: A Cake Eating Model, 87 Mathematical Social Sciences 94-102 (2017) (with Nicolas Treich)
Years of Good Life Based on Income and Health: Re-Engineering Cost-Benefit Analysis to Examine Policy Impact on Wellbeing and Distributive Justice (CHE Research Paper 132) (2016) (with others)
Aggregating Moral Preferences, 32 Economics & Philosophy 283-321 (2016)
Behavioral Economics, Happiness Surveys, and Public Policy, Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis (2016)
Benefit-Cost Analysis and Distributional Weights: An Overview, 10 Review of Environmental Economics & Policy 264-285 (2016)
Extended Preferences, in Oxford Handbook of Well-Being & Public Policy 476 (Matthew Adler & Marc Fleurbaey eds., 2016)
Introduction, in Oxford Handbook of Well-Being & Public Policy 1 (Matthew Adler & Marc Fleurbaey, eds., 2016) (with Marc Fleurbaey)
Priority for the Worse Off and the Social Cost of Carbon (CSIFO, Working Paper No. 6032, August 2016)
Equity by the Numbers: Measuring Poverty, Inequality, and Injustice, 66 Alabama Law Review 551-607 (2015)
Prioritarianism and Climate Change, 62 Environmental & Resource Economics 279-308 (2015) (with Nicolas Trench)
The Ethical Value of Risk Reduction: Utilitarianism, Prioritarianism and Cost-Benefit Analysis, in Ethics & Risk Management 9-29 (Lina Svedin ed., 2015)
Value and Cost-Benefit Analysis, in The Oxford Handbook of Value Theory 317-337 (Iwao Hirose & Jonas Olson eds., 2015)
Welfarism, Equity, and the Choice Between Statistical and Identified Victims, in Identified Versus Statistical Lives: An Interdisciplinary Perspective 53-76 (I. Glenn Cohen, Norman Daniels & Nir Eyal eds., 2015)
Consumption, Risk, and Prioritarianism (2014) (with Nicolas Treich)
Book Review, 4 Oeconomia: History, Methodology, Philosophy 77-85 (2014) (reviewing Marc Fleurbaey & Francois Maniquet, A Theory of Fairness and Social Welfare (2011)
Extended Preferences and Interpersonal Comparisons: A New Account, 30 Economics & Philosophy 123-162 (2014)
The Social Value of Mortality Risk Reduction: VSL vs. the Social Welfare Function Approach, 35 Journal of Health Economics 82-93 (2014) (with others)
Using and Improving the Social Cost of Carbon, 346 Science 1189-1190 (5 December 2014) (with others)
Cost-Benefit Analysis, in Encyclopedia of Philosophy and the Social Sciences (Byron Kaldis ed, 2013)
Happiness Surveys and Public Policy: What's the Use?, 62 Duke Law Journal 1509-1601 (2013)
Happiness, Health and Leisure: Valuing the Nonconsumption Impacts of Unemployment, in Does Regulation Kill Jobs? 150-169 (Cary Coglianese et al. eds., 2013)
Interpretive Contestation and Legal Correctness, 53 William & Mary Law Review 1115-1136 (2012)
Harsanyi 2.0 (2011)
Book Review, 120 Ethics 831-836 (2010) (reviewing N. Scott Arnold, Imposing Values: An Essay on Liberalism and Regulation (2009))
Contingent Valuation Studies and Health Policy, 5 Health Economics, Policy & Law 123-131 (2010)
Regulatory Theory, in A Companion to Philosophy of Law and Legal Theory 590-606 (Dennis Paterson ed., 2010)
Bounded Rationality and Legal Scholarship, in Theoretical Foundations of Law and Economics 137 (Mark D. White ed., 2009)
Future Generations: A Prioritarian View, 77 George Washington Law Review 1478-1520 (2009)
Introduction, in The Rule of Recognition and the U.S. Constitution xiii (Matthew D. Adler & Kenneth Einar Himma eds., 2009) (with Kenneth Einar Himma)
New Foundations of Cost-Benefit Analysis, 3 Regulation & Governance 72-83 (2009) (with Eric A. Posner)
On (Moral) Philosophy and American Legal Scholarship, in On Philosophy in American Law 114-121 (Jay Mootz ed., 2009)
Social Facts, Constitutional Interpretation, and the Rule of Recognition, in The Rule of Recognition and the U.S. Constitution 193 (Matthew D. Adler & Kenneth Einar Himma eds, 2009)
Happiness Research and Cost-Benefit Analysis, 37 Journal of Legal Studies S253-S292 (2008) reprinted in Law and Happiness (Eric Posner & Cass Sunstein eds., 2010) (with Eric A. Posner)
Introducing a 'Different Lives' Approach to the Valuation of Health and Well-Being (2008) (University of Pennsylvania Law School, Institute for Law & Economics, Research Paper No. 08-05, 2008) (with Paul Dolan)
Risk Equity: A New Proposal, 32 Harvard Environmental Law Review 1-47 (2008)
Corrective Justice and Liability for Global Warming, 155 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 1859-1867 (2007)
Cost-Benefit Analysis, in Encyclopedia of Law and Society: American and Global Perspectives (David S. Clark ed, 2007)
Economic Growth and the Interests of Future (and Past and Present) Generations: A Comment on Tyler Cowen, 74 University of Chicago Law Review 41-49 (2007)
Policy Analysis for Natural Hazards: Some Cautionary Lessons From Environmental Policy Analysis, 32 Administrative & Regulatory Law News 11-14 (Summer 2007)
Well-Being, Inequality and Time: The Time-Slice Problem and its Policy Implications, 2007 7-17 (2007) (University of Pennsylvania Law School, Institute for Law & Economics, Research Paper No. 07-17, 2007)
Why De Minimis?, 2007 7-12 (2007) (University of Pennsylvania, Institute for Law & Economics, Research Paper No. 07-12, 2007)
Constitutional Fidelity, the Rule of Recognition, and the Communitarian Turn in Contemporary Positivism, 75 Fordham Law Review 1671-1696 (2006)
Cost-Benefit Analysis: New Foundations, 42 Legislacao: Cadernos de Ciencia de Legislacao 63 (2006) Proceedings of the Conference on Legal Evaluation, Lisbon, January 2005
Equity Analysis and Natural Hazards Policy, in On Risk and Disaster: Lessons from Hurricane Katrina (Ronald Daniels et al. eds., 2006)
Inequality and Uncertainty: Theory and Legal Applications, 155 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 279-377 (2006) (with Chris William Sanchirico)
Policy Analysis for Natural Hazards: Some Cautionary Lessons from Environmental Policy Analysis, 56 Duke Law Journal 1-50 (2006)
Popular Constitutionalism and the Rule of Recognition: Whose Practices Ground U.S. Law?, 100 Northwestern University Law Review 719-806 (2006)
QALYs and Policy Evaluation: A New Perspective, 6 Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law & Ethics 1-92 (2006)
Welfare Polls: A Synthesis, 81 New York University Law Review 1875-1970 (2006)
Against 'Individual Risk': A Sympathetic Critique of Risk Assessment, 153 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 1122-1250 (2005)
Book Review, 115 Ethics 824-828 (2005) (reviewing Louis Kaplow & Steven Shavell, Fairness versus Welfare (2002))
Cognitivism, Controversy and Moral Heuristics, 28 Behavioral & Brain Sciences 542-543 (2005)
Justification, Legitimacy, and Administrative Governance, 2005 Issues in Legal Scholarship 1-15 (2005)
Cost-Benefit Analysis, Static Efficiency, and the Goals of Environmental Law, 31 Environmental Affairs 591-605 (2004)
Fear Assessment: Cost-Benefit Analysis and the Pricing of Fear and Anxiety, 79 Chicago-Kent Law Review 977-1053 (2004) (condensed version published at, 29 Administrative & Regulatory Law News 4-7 (Summer 2004))
Constitutional Existence Conditions and Judicial Review, 89 Virginia Law Review 1105-1202 (2003) (with Michael C. Dorf)
Does the Constitution Require (Basic or Strengthened) Public Rationality?, in Linking Law and Political Science (Christoph Engel & Adrienne Heritier eds., 2003)
Introduction to Symposium, Preferences and Rational Choice: New Perspectives and Legal Implications, University of Pennsylvania Law Review 707-715 (2003) (with others)
Legal Transitions: Some Welfarist Remarks, 13 Journal of Contemporary Legal Issues 5-28 (2003)
Risk, Death and Harm: The Normative Foundations of Risk Regulation, 87 Minnesota Law Review 1293-1445 (2003)
The Puzzle of Ex Ante Efficiency: Does Rational Approvability have Moral Weight?, 151 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 707 (2003)
Book Review, Notre Dame Philosophical Review: An Electronic Journal (2002) (reviewing Rights, Wrongs and Responsibilities (Matthew H. Kramer ed., 2001))
The Positive Political Theory of Cost-Benefit Analysis: A Comment on Johnston, 150 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 1429-1451 (2002)
Expression and Appearance: A Comment on Hellman, 60 Maryland Law Review 688-712 (2001)
Risk, Death and Time: A Comment on Judge Williams' Defense of Cost-Benefit Analysis, 53 Administrative Law Review 271-287 (2001)
Beyond Efficiency and Procedure: A Welfarist Theory of Regulation, 28 Florida State University Law Review 241-338 (2000)
Book Review, 20 Philosophy in Review 142-145 (2000) (reviewing Richard A. Posner, The Problematics of Moral and Legal Theory (1999))
Expressive Theories of Law: A Skeptical Overview, 148 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 1363-1501 (2000)
Implementing Cost-Benefit Analysis When Preferences Are Distorted, 29 Perspectives: Teaching Legal Research and Writing 1105-1147 (2000) (republished in Cost-Benefit Analysis: Legal, Economic and Philosophical Perspectives (Matthew D. Alder & Eric A. Posner eds., 2001) (with Eric A. Posner)
Introduction, to Cost-Benefit Analysis, 29 Journal of Legal Studies 837-842 (2000) (with Eric A. Posner)
Linguistic Meaning, Nonlinguistic "Expression," and the Multiple Variants of Expressivism: A Reply to Professors Anderson and Pildes, 148 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 1577-1594 (2000)
Personal Rights and Rule-Dependence: Can the Two Coexist?, 6 Legal Theory 337-389 (2000)
Rights and Rules: An Overview, 6 Legal Theory 241-251 (Volker D. Franke & Robin Dorff eds. ,2000) (with Michael C. Dorf)
Rights, Rules and the Structure of Constitutional Adjudication: A Response to Professor Fallon, 113 Harvard Law Review 1371-1420 (2000)
Book Review, 19 Philosophy in Review 168-171 (1999) (reviewing Incommensurability, Incomparability and Practical Reason (Ruth Chang ed., 1997))
Rethinking Cost-Benefit Analysis, 109 Yale Law Journal 165-247 (1999) (excerpted in Jurisprudence: Classical and Contemporary (Robert Hayman et al., 2d ed., 2002)) (with Eric A. Posner)
Can Constitutional Borrowing be Justified? A Comment on Tushnet, 1 University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law 350-357 (1998)
Incommensurability and Cost-Benefit Analysis, 146 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 1371-1418 (1998)
Law and Incommensurability: Introduction, 146 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 1169-1184 (1998)
Rights Against Rules: The Moral Structure of American Constitutional Law, 97 Michigan Law Review 1-173 (1998)
The New Etiquette of Federalism: New York, Printz and Yeskey, 1998 Supreme Court Review 71-143 (1998) (with Seth F. Kreimer)
Judicial Restraint in the Administrative State: Beyond the Countermajoritarian Difficulty, 145 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 759-892 (1997)
What States Owe Outsiders, 20 Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly 391-438 (1993)

Newspaper Articles and Commentary

Cost-Benefit Analysis and Social Welfare Functions, RegBlog (September 19, 2016)
Inequality of What?, OUPblog (June 17, 2016)

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Bibliography

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Books

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