BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//Grails iCalendar plugin//NONSGML Grails iCalendar plugin//EN VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260417T143359Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220523T173000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220523T190000 SUMMARY:Measuring Social Welfare\, with Priority for the Worse Off UID:20260420T003145Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-f5d4878dd-g4ggw TZID:Europe/London LOCATION:Faculty of Divinity\, Cambridge\, United Kingdom\, CB3 9BS DESCRIPTION:Lecture and Workshop with Professor Matthew Adler\, Cambridge May 23rd\n \;\n

The Centre for the Study of Existential Risk would like to invite you to attend a public lecture on "Measuring Social Welfare\, with Priority for the Worse Off" with Professor Matthew \;Adler (Duke) on Monday 23rd \;May 5.30 pm at the Runcie Room\, Faculty of Divinity\, CB3 9BS. \;To register for in-person attendance\, please use the below Eventbrite link.
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In his lecture\, Mathew Adler will be talking about the development and application of the social welfare function (SWF) framework \;for policy evaluation. The SWF is a powerful tool for evaluating governmental policies across a range of domains in light of \;human well-being\, representing a major step beyond traditional cost-benefit analysis that currently dominate policy-assessment. \;While cost-benefit analysis quantifies well-being impacts in monetary units\, the SWF framework does so using an interpersonally \;comparable well-being measure. In his lecture Professor Adler will talk about the use of Prioritarian SWFs\, which represent a \;further development of this concept by giving extra weight to well-being changes affecting individuals at lower levels of well-being.
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In conjunction with this lecture\, Matthew has offered to run a manuscript workshop on a forthcoming book he is writing on "Risk\, Death and Well-Being: The Ethical Foundations of Fatality Risk Regulation" which will take place on the same day from \;1 \;pm-4 pm \;in the Mill Lane area of Cambridge. He has suggested that we focus on a few key chapters so people don&rsquo\;t need to \;read the whole book if they don&rsquo\;t want to. Please email \;events@cser.cam.ac.uk \;if you would like to attend so that we can send \;you a copy of the manuscript.

Register for the lecture below:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/327215709997

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