Friday, October 26, 2018
8:15-8:45 Breakfast
8:45-9:00 Opening Remarks
- Benjamin Lockwood, University of Pennsylvania
- Itai Sher, University of Massachusetts Amherst
9:00-10:30 Session 1: Ethics and Economics of Climate Change
- Dale Jamieson, New York University
- Christian Traeger, University of Oslo (Paper)
- Discussant: Arthur Van Benthem, University of Pennsylvania
10:30-11:00 Break
11:00-12:30 Session 2: Normative Uncertainty and Normative Diversity
- Stefan Riedener, University of Zurich (Paper)
- Itai Sher, University of Massachusetts Amherst (Paper)
- Discussant: Christian Tarsney, University of Groningen
12:30-2:00 Lunch
2:00-3:30 Session 3: Preferences for Redistribution and Moral Psychology
- Raymond Fisman, Boston University (Paper)
- Fiery Cushman, Harvard University (Paper)
- Discussant: Geoffrey Goodwin, University of Pennsylvania
3:30-4:00 Break
4:00-5:30 Session 4: Poverty, Inequality, and Health
- Martin Ravallion, Georgetown University (Paper)
- Jennifer Prah Ruger, University of Pennsylvania (Paper)
- Discussant: Mark Pauly, University of Pennsylvania
5:30-6:30 Break
6:30-9:00 Conference Dinner (for speakers and discussants)
Saturday, October 27, 2018.
8:30-9:00 Breakfast
9:00-10:30 Session 5: Behavioral Welfare Economics and Paternalism
- Benjamin Lockwood, University of Pennsylvania (Paper)
- Erik Angner, Stockholm University
- Discussant: Douglas Mackay, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
10:30-11:00 Break
11:00-12:30 Session 6: Algorithms, Data and the Public Good
- Rakesh Vohra, University of Pennsylvania (Paper)
- Helen Nissenbaum, Cornell University (Paper)
- Discussant: Daniel Singer, University of Pennsylvania
12:30-1:30 Lunch
1:30-3:00 Session 7: Happiness and Social Welfare
- Kristen Cooper, Gordon College
- Dan Haybron, Saint Louis University (Paper)
- Discussant: Alex Rees-Jones, University of Pennsylvania
3:00-3:30 Break
3:30-5:00 Closing Panel
- Ruth Chang, Rutgers University
- Joel Sobel, University of California, San Diego
- John Broome, University of Oxford
- Steven Sheffrin, Tulane University
- Moderator: Amy Sepinwall, University of Pennsylvania