Matthew D. Adler

Duke University School of Law

Richard A. Horvitz Professor of Law and Professor of Economics, Philosophy, and Public Policy

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Rethinking Cost-Benefit Analysis

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Rethinking Cost-Benefit Analysis

University of Chicago Law School, John M. Olin Law & Economics Working Paper No. 72
Number of pages: 92 Posted: 27 May 1999
Matthew D. Adler and Eric A. Posner
Duke University School of Law and University of Chicago - Law School
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Rethinking Cost-Benefit Analysis

Yale Law Journal, Vol. 109, 1999
Posted: 17 May 1999
Matthew D. Adler and Eric A. Posner
Duke University School of Law and University of Chicago - Law School

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Regulatory Theory

A COMPANION TO PHILOSOPHY OF LAW AND LEGAL THEORY, Dennis Paterson, ed., Cambridge U. Press, Forthcoming, U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 10-07
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 16 Feb 2010
Matthew D. Adler
Duke University School of Law
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Administrative law and regulation, regulation defined, moral evaluation of regulation, economic rationales for regulation, welfarism, Kaldor-Hicks principle, Pareto principle, welfare economics, market failure, externalities, public goods and monopoly power, The Coase Theorem

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Implementing Cost-Benefit Analysis When Preferences are Distorted

U Chicago Law & Economics, Olin Working Paper No. 88; and U of Penn, Inst for Law & Econ Research Paper 277
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 30 Nov 1999
Matthew D. Adler and Eric A. Posner
Duke University School of Law and University of Chicago - Law School
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Fear Assessment: Cost-Benefit Analysis and the Pricing of Fear and Anxiety

U Penn. Law School, Public Law Working Paper 44, Chicago-Kent Law Review, Vol. 79, p. 977, 2004, U of Penn, Inst for Law & Econ Research Paper No. 03-28, AEI-Brookings Joint Ctr Working Paper No. 03-12
Number of pages: 77 Posted: 19 Nov 2003 Last Revised: 21 Dec 2014
Matthew D. Adler
Duke University School of Law
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risk, fear, health, safety, environment

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Happiness Research and Cost-Benefit Analysis

U of Penn, Inst for Law & Econ Research Paper No. 07-15, U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 07-29, U of Chicago Law & Economics, Olin Working Paper No. 345
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 11 Jul 2007
Matthew D. Adler and Eric A. Posner
Duke University School of Law and University of Chicago - Law School
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happiness, subjective well-being, SWB, cost-benefit analysis, CBA, social welfare

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Against 'Individual Risk': A Sympathetic Critique of Risk Assessment

U of Penn. Law School, Public Law Working Paper 49, 153 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 1121 (2005), U of Penn, Inst for Law & Econ Research Paper No. 04-01
Number of pages: 130 Posted: 16 Jan 2004 Last Revised: 21 Dec 2014
Matthew D. Adler
Duke University School of Law
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What Should We Spend to Save Lives in a Pandemic? A Critique of the Value of Statistical Life

Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Series No. 2020-40
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 21 Jul 2020
Matthew D. Adler
Duke University School of Law
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VSL, value of statistical life, COVID-19, Kaldor-Hicks, utilitarian, prioritarian, social distancing, risk regulation

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Popular Constitutionalism and the Rule of Recognition: Whose Practices Ground U.S. Law?

Northwestern University Law Review, Vol. 100, p. 719, 2006, U of Penn. Law School, Public Law Working Paper 54
Number of pages: 88 Posted: 12 Oct 2004 Last Revised: 21 Dec 2014
Matthew D. Adler
Duke University School of Law
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Constitutional Law, Jurisprudence

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Inequality and Uncertainty: Theory and Legal Applications

University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Vol. 155, p. 279, 2006, U of Penn Law School, Public Law Working Paper No. 06-02, U of Penn, Inst for Law & Econ Research Paper No. 06-05
Number of pages: 99 Posted: 24 Feb 2006 Last Revised: 21 Dec 2014
Matthew D. Adler and Chris William Sanchirico
Duke University School of Law and University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
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Social Welfare, Welfarism, Fairness, Utilitarianism, Consequentialism, Inequality, Equity, Uncertainty, Ex Post Social Welfare, Ex Ante Social Welfare, Cost Benefit Analysis, Pigou-Dalton Principle, Sure Thing Principle, Time Inconsistency, Compensation, Insurance

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Constitutional Existence Conditions and Judicial Review

Virginia Law Review, Vol. 89, No. 1105, 2003, Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 13-70, U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 40, Columbia Public Law Research Paper No. 03-53
Number of pages: 99 Posted: 22 Feb 2013
Matthew D. Adler and Michael C. Dorf
Duke University School of Law and Cornell Law School
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constitution, interpretation, judicial review, congress, courts, amendment

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Cost-Benefit Analysis and Distributional Weights: An Overview

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Cost-Benefit Analysis and Distributional Weights: An Overview

Duke Environmental and Energy Economics Working Paper EE 13-04
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 19 Jul 2014
Matthew D. Adler
Duke University School of Law
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Cost-Benefit Analysis and Distributional Weights: An Overview

Number of pages: 49 Posted: 22 Aug 2013
Matthew D. Adler
Duke University School of Law
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cost-benefit analysis, CBA., distributional weights, inequality, value of statistical life, VSL, utilitarianism

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Risk, Death and Harm: The Normative Foundations of Risk Regulation

Number of pages: 155 Posted: 30 May 2003
Matthew D. Adler
Duke University School of Law
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Expressive Theories of Law: A Skeptical Overview

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Expressive Theories of Law: A Skeptical Overview

Number of pages: 137 Posted: 15 Jul 1999
Matthew D. Adler
Duke University School of Law
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Expressive Theories of Law: A Skeptical Overview

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Matthew D. Adler
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A Better Calculus for Regulators: From Cost-Benefit Analysis to the Social Welfare Function

Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Series No. 2017-19
Number of pages: 77 Posted: 28 Feb 2017 Last Revised: 04 Apr 2017
Matthew D. Adler
Duke University School of Law
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Social Welfare Function, CBA, Risk Regulation, Utilitarian, Prioritarian

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QALYs and Policy Evaluation: A New Perspective

Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law, and Ethics, Vol. 6, pp. 1, 2006, AEI-Brookings Joint Center Working Paper No. 05-01, U of Penn, Inst for Law & Econ Research Paper No. 05-08, U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 61
Number of pages: 84 Posted: 28 Jan 2005 Last Revised: 21 Dec 2014
Matthew D. Adler
Duke University School of Law
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cost-benefit analysis, life years, well-being, policy analysis

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Beyond Efficiency and Procedure: A Welfarist Theory of Regulation

Number of pages: 103 Posted: 18 Oct 2000
Matthew D. Adler
Duke University School of Law
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Rational Choice, Rational Agenda-Setting, and Constitutional Law: Does the Constitution Require Basic or Strengthened Public Rationality?

Number of pages: 69 Posted: 29 Jan 2003
Matthew D. Adler
Duke University School of Law
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Prioritarianism: A Response to Critics

Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Series No. 2018-32
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 10 Apr 2018
Matthew D. Adler and Nils Holtug
Duke University School of Law and University of Copenhagen
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prioritarianism, utilitarianism, egalitarianism, sufficientism, Parfit

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Constitutional Fidelity, the Rule of Recognition, and the Communitarian Turn in Contemporary Positivism

Fordham Law Review, Vol. 75, p. 1671, 2006, University of Pennsylvania Law School, Public Law Working Paper No. 06-19
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 25 Apr 2006 Last Revised: 21 Dec 2014
Matthew D. Adler
Duke University School of Law
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Bounded Rationality and Legal Scholarship

U of Penn, Inst for Law & Econ Research Paper No. 08-03
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 21 Feb 2008
Matthew D. Adler
Duke University School of Law
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decision theory, bounded rationality, social welfare, heuristics and biases, optimal search, expected utility theory, legal scholarship

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Happiness Surveys and Public Policy: What’s the Use?

Duke Law Journal, Vol. 62, 2013 Forthcoming, U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 12-36, U of Penn, Inst for Law & Econ Research Paper No. 12-23
Number of pages: 70 Posted: 07 Jun 2012
Matthew D. Adler
Duke University School of Law
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happiness, subjective well-being, SWB, surveys, satisfaction, preferences, preference-utility, experience-utility, social welfare, welfare economics, welfarism, wellbeing, cost-benefit analysis, welfare, hedonism, utility

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Why De Minimis?

U of Penn, Inst for Law & Econ Research Paper No. 07-12, U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 07-26
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 11 Jun 2007
Matthew D. Adler
Duke University School of Law
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De minimis risk, significant risk, risk regulation, natural hazards, probability thresholds, decision theory, policy analysis, bounded rationality

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Social Facts, Constitutional Interpretation, and the Rule of Recognition

THE RULE OF RECOGNITION AND THE U.S. CONSTITUTION, Matthew D. Adler & Kenneth Einar Himma, eds., Oxford U. Press, 2009, U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 09-02
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 19 Jan 2009 Last Revised: 21 Dec 2014
Matthew D. Adler
Duke University School of Law
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Constitutional law, jurisprudence, H.L.A. Hart, interpretive methods, legal culture, error theory

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Well-Being, Inequality and Time: The Time-Slice Problem and its Policy Implications

U of Penn, Inst for Law & Econ Research Paper No. 07-17, U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 07-30
Number of pages: 65 Posted: 19 Aug 2007
Matthew D. Adler
Duke University School of Law
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equality, poverty, lifetime well-being, lifetime income, welfarism, social welfare function, redistributive taxation

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The Pigou-Dalton Principle and the Structure of Distributive Justice

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 11 May 2013
Matthew D. Adler
Duke University School of Law
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Pigou-Dalton, justice, veil of ignorance, Temkin, Nagel, claims, distribution, separability

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Risk Equity: A New Proposal

Harvard Environmental Law Review, Vol. 32, p. 1, 2008, U of Penn, Inst for Law & Econ Research Paper No. 07-07, U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 07-18
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 17 Apr 2007 Last Revised: 21 Dec 2014
Matthew D. Adler
Duke University School of Law
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risk, equity, distributive justice, inequality, environmental justice, health equity, QALY, social welfare, incidence analysis, cost-benefit analysis, risk assessment

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Theory of Prioritarianism

This paper is a draft of chapter 2 of Matthew D. Adler and Ole F. Norheim, eds., Prioritarianism in Practice (Cambridge University Press, Forthcoming).
Number of pages: 75 Posted: 14 Apr 2021
Matthew D. Adler
Duke University School of Law
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Prioritarianism, utilitarianism, social welfare function (SWF), Pigou-Dalton, Separability, interpersonal comparisons of well-being, generalized-utilitarian SWFs, Atkinson SWFs, Kolm-Pollak SWFs

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Equity Analysis and Natural Hazards Policy

ON RISK AND DISASTER: LESSONS FROM HURRICANE KATRINA, Ronald Daniels, Howard Kunreuther, Donald Kettl, eds., University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006, U of Penn Law School, Public Law Working Paper No. 06-14, U of Penn, Inst for Law & Econ Research Paper No. 06-02
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 13 Dec 2005
Matthew D. Adler
Duke University School of Law
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Introducing a 'Different Lives' Approach to the Valuation of Health and Well-Being

U of Penn, Inst for Law & Econ Research Paper No. 08-05
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 24 Mar 2008
Matthew D. Adler and Paul Dolan
Duke University School of Law and Imperial College London
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QALYs, preferences, well-being, utility, welfarism, extra-welfarism

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Priority for the Worse Off and the Social Cost of Carbon

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Priority for the Worse Off and the Social Cost of Carbon

CESifo Working Paper Series No. 6032
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 17 Aug 2016
Matthew D. Adler, David Anthoff, Valentina Bosetti, Gregory Garner, Klaus Keller and Nicolas Treich
Duke University School of Law, University of California, Berkeley - Energy and Resources Group, Bocconi University, Pennsylvania State University, Pennsylvania State University and University of Toulouse 1 - Toulouse School of Economics (TSE)
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Social Cost of Carbon, Climate Change, Prioritarianism, Integrated Assessment Model, Welfare Economics

Priority for the Worse Off and the Social Cost of Carbon

FEEM Working Paper No. 55.2016
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 27 Aug 2016
Matthew D. Adler, David Anthoff, Valentina Bosetti, Gregory Garner, Klaus Keller and Nicolas Treich
Duke University School of Law, University of California, Berkeley - Energy and Resources Group, Bocconi University, Pennsylvania State University, Pennsylvania State University and University of Toulouse 1 - Toulouse School of Economics (TSE)
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Prioritarianism, Social Welfare Function, Social Cost of Carbon

Priority for the Worse Off and the Social Cost of Carbon

CESifo Working Paper Series No. 6032
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 28 Sep 2016
Matthew D. Adler, David Anthoff, Valentina Bosetti, Gregory Garner, Klaus Keller and Nicolas Treich
Duke University School of Law, University of California, Berkeley - Energy and Resources Group, Bocconi University, Pennsylvania State University, Pennsylvania State University and University of Toulouse 1 - Toulouse School of Economics (TSE)
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social cost of carbon, climate change, prioritarianism, integrated assessment model, welfare economics

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The Social Value of Mortality Risk Reduction: VSL vs. The Social Welfare Function Approach

U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 12-29, U of Penn, Inst for Law & Econ Research Paper No. 12-16
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 05 Apr 2012
Matthew D. Adler, James K. Hammitt and Nicolas Treich
Duke University School of Law, Harvard University and French National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA)
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law and economics, risk policy, uncertainty, cost-benefit analysis, CBA, value of statistical life, VSL, social welfare functions, SWF, welfare economics, welfarism, wellbeing, utilitarianism, prioritarianism, social choice theory, equity, fairness

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Harsanyi 2.0

U of Penn, Inst for Law & Econ Research Paper Series No. 11-22, U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper Series No. 11-28
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 05 Aug 2011
Matthew D. Adler
Duke University School of Law
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social welfare function, utility, interpersonal comparisons, John Harsanyi, extended preferences, welfare economics

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Welfare Polls: A Synthesis

New York University Law Review, Vol. 81, No. 6, pp. 1875, 2006, U of Penn Law School, Public Law Working Paper No. 06-03, U of Penn, Inst for Law & Econ Research Paper No. 06-06
Number of pages: 94 Posted: 23 Feb 2006 Last Revised: 21 Dec 2014
Matthew D. Adler
Duke University School of Law
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cost-benefit analysis, contingent valuation, QALY, happiness, well-being, survey, revealed preference, deliberative democracy

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Would You Choose to Be Happy? Tradeoffs between Happiness and the Other Dimensions of Life in a Large Population Survey

Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Series No. 2015-35
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 06 Aug 2015
Matthew D. Adler, Paul Dolan and Georgios Kavetsos
Duke University School of Law, London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) and London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE)
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happiness, subjective well-being, SWB, life satisfaction, preference

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Policy Analysis for Natural Hazards: Some Cautionary Lessons from Environmental Policy Analysis

Duke Law Journal, Vol. 56, p. 1, 2006, U of Penn, Inst for Law & Econ Research Paper No. 06-25, U of Penn Law School, Public Law Working Paper No. 06-43
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 15 Nov 2006
Matthew D. Adler
Duke University School of Law
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natural hazards, risk assessment, environmental policy analysis

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Personal Rights and Rule Dependence: Can the Two Co-Exist?

Number of pages: 95 Posted: 19 Oct 2000
Matthew D. Adler
Duke University School of Law
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Equity by the Numbers: Measuring Poverty, Inequality, and Injustice

Number of pages: 49 Posted: 12 May 2013
Matthew D. Adler
Duke University School of Law
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poverty, inequality, social welfare function, Pigou-Dalton, equity, injustice

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Extended Preferences

Forthcoming as chapter in Oxford Handbook of Well-Being and Public Policy, edited by Matthew D. Adler and Marc Fleurbaey (Oxford University Press, 2016).
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 24 Aug 2015
Matthew D. Adler
Duke University School of Law
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Preference, extended preference, well-being, utility, Harsanyi, interpersonal comparison, equivalent income

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Legal Transitions: Some Welfarist Remarks

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 17 Oct 2003
Matthew D. Adler
Duke University School of Law
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Future Generations: A Prioritarian View

George Washington Law Review, Vol. 77, p. 1478, 2009, U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 09-30, U of Penn, Inst for Law & Econ Research Paper No. 09-39
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 22 Oct 2009
Matthew D. Adler
Duke University School of Law
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social welfare function, prioritarianism, discount rate, population ethics, non-identity problem, repugnant conclusion, infinite future, distributive justice, utilitaranism

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Fair Innings: The Utilitarian and Prioritarian Value of Risk Reduction over a Whole Lifetime

Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Series No. 2019-79
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 09 Dec 2019
Matthew D. Adler, Maddalena Ferranna, James K. Hammitt and Nicolas Treich
Duke University School of Law, affiliation not provided to SSRN, Harvard University and University of Toulouse 1 - Toulouse School of Economics (TSE)
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social welfare function (SWF), benefit-cost analysis (BCA), value of statistical life (VSL), fair innings, social value of risk reduction (SVRR), utilitarian, prioritarian, risk regulation

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Rights and Rules

Legal Theory, Vol. 6, No. 241, 2000, Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 13-60
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 21 Feb 2013
Matthew D. Adler and Michael C. Dorf
Duke University School of Law and Cornell Law School
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Article III, constitutional rights, challenged legal rules, statutory right, moral right

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Consumption, Risk, and Prioritarianism

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 12 Oct 2014 Last Revised: 20 Dec 2014
Matthew D. Adler and Nicolas Treich
Duke University School of Law and French National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA)
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Precautionary savings, utilitarianism, prioritarianism, discounting, climate change

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Assessing the Distribution of Impacts in Global Benefit‐Cost Analysis

Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Series No. 2022-10
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 07 Feb 2022
Lisa A. Robinson, James K. Hammitt and Matthew D. Adler
Harvard University - Department of Health Policy & Management, Harvard University and Duke University School of Law
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benefit-cost analysis, distributional analysis, equity, social welfare functions

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Justice, Claims and Prioritarianism: Room for Desert?

Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Series No. 2017-5
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 27 Oct 2016 Last Revised: 13 Jan 2017
Matthew D. Adler
Duke University School of Law
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distributive justice, prioritarianism, claims, Pareto, Pigou-Dalton

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Ex-Post Approaches to Prioritarianism and Sufficientarianism

Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Series No. 2023-53
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 12 Sep 2023 Last Revised: 10 Oct 2024
Matthew D. Adler, Walter Bossert, Susumu Cato and Kohei Kamaga
Duke University School of Law, University of Montreal Department of Economics, University of Tokyo and Faculty of Economics, Sophia University
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sufficientarianism, prioritarianism, risk, Pareto axioms independence axioms

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Social Welfare Functions and Health Policy: A New Approach

Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Series No. 2024-35
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 31 May 2024
Matthew D. Adler
Duke University School of Law
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prioritarianism, social value of risk reduction, social welfare function, utilitarianism, value of statistical life

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Narrowly Person-Affecting Axiology: A Reconsideration

Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Series No. 2024-31
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 22 Apr 2024
Matthew D. Adler
Duke University School of Law
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Person-affecting, Pareto, Pigou-Dalton, Desert, Equity, Repugnant Conclusion, Welfarism

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Prioritarianism in Practice

Prioritarianism in Practice (Matthew D. Adler and Ole F. Norheim, eds.; Cambridge University Press, 2022)
Posted: 26 Jul 2022
Matthew D. Adler and Ole Frithjof Norheim
Duke University School of Law and University of Bergen

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prioritarianism, utilitarianism, egalitarianism, well-being, policy assessment

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Measuring Social Welfare: An Introduction

Oxford University Press, 2019, Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Series No. 2020-8
Posted: 28 Feb 2020
Matthew D. Adler
Duke University School of Law

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Social Welfare Function, Cost-Benefit Analysis, Utility, Utilitarianism, Prioritarianism, Fatality Risk

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The Oxford Handbook of Well-Being and Public Policy

The Oxford Handbook of Well-Being and Public Policy, Oxford University Press, 2016
Posted: 01 Aug 2016
Matthew D. Adler and Marc Fleurbaey
Duke University School of Law and Princeton University - Princeton School of Public and International Affairs

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Prioritarianism and Climate Change

Environmental and Resource Economics 62: 279-308 (2015)
Posted: 31 May 2016 Last Revised: 14 Jul 2016
Matthew D. Adler and Nicolas Treich
Duke University School of Law and University of Toulouse 1 - Toulouse School of Economics (TSE)

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climate change, social choice, social welfare function, prioritarianism, risk and uncertainty, population

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Aggregating Moral Preferences

Economics and Philosophy, Volume 32, pp. 283-321, 2016
Posted: 31 May 2016
Matthew D. Adler
Duke University School of Law

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Metaethics, Ideal Advisor, Preference Aggregation, Social Choice, Moral Preferences

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Behavioral Economics, Happiness Surveys, and Public Policy

Journal of Benefit Cost Analysis 7: 196-219 (2016), Duke Law School Public Law & Legal Theory Series No. 2016-32
Posted: 26 May 2016
Matthew D. Adler
Duke University School of Law

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behavioral, behavioral economics, expected utility, happiness, rationality, subjective well-being

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Well-Being and Fair Distribution: Beyond Cost-Benefit Analysis

Matthew D. Adler, WELL-BEING AND FAIR DISTRIBUTION: BEYOND COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS, Oxford University Press, 2012, U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 12-01, U of Penn, Inst for Law & Econ Research Paper No. 12-01
Posted: 05 Jan 2012
Matthew D. Adler
Duke University School of Law

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Philosophy of law, law and economics, philosophy of economics, prioritarianism, distributive theory, fairness, distribution, social welfare, wellbeing, government policy, cost-benefit analysis, CBA, utility metrics, welfarism, social choice theory

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Contingent Valuation Studies and Health Policy

Health Economics, Policy & Law, Vol. 5, p. 123, 2010, U of Penn Law School, Public Law Research Paper No. 10-10
Posted: 20 Feb 2010
Matthew D. Adler
Duke University School of Law

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Cost-benefit analysis, CBA, cost-effectiveness analysis, CEA, willingness to pay, willingness to accept, extrawelfarism, welfarism, Kaldor-Hicks principle, social welfare functions, health policy choice, welfare theory

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New Foundations of Cost-Benefit Analysis

NEW FOUNDATIONS OF COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS, Harvard University Press, 2006, University of Pennsylvania Law School, Public Law Working Paper No. 06-40, University of Pennsylvania, Institute for Law & Economics Research Paper No. 06-23
Posted: 03 Oct 2006
Matthew D. Adler and Eric A. Posner
Duke University School of Law and University of Chicago - Law School

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Justification, Legitimacy, and Administrative Governance

Issues in Legal Scholarship, Vol. 3, 2005, U of Penn Law School, Public Law Working Paper No. 06-06
Posted: 17 May 2005
Matthew D. Adler
Duke University School of Law

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The Puzzle of 'Ex Ante Efficiency': Does Rational Approvability Have Moral Weight?

Posted: 02 Jun 2003
Matthew D. Adler
Duke University School of Law

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The Positive Political Theory of Cost-Benefit Analysis: A Comment on Johnston

Posted: 13 Jun 2002
Matthew D. Adler
Duke University School of Law

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Cost-Benefit Analysis: Legal, Economic and Philosophical Perspectives

U of Penn, Inst for Law & Econ Research Paper 01-22
Posted: 19 Dec 2001
Matthew D. Adler and Eric A. Posner
Duke University School of Law and University of Chicago - Law School

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Rights, Rules and the Structure of Constitutional Adjudication: A Response to Professor Fallon

Harvard Law Review, Vol. 113, P. 1371, 2000
Posted: 22 May 2000
Matthew D. Adler
Duke University School of Law

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63.

The New Etiquette of Federalism: New York, Printz and Yeskey

The Supreme Court Review, 1998
Posted: 12 Apr 1999
Matthew D. Adler and Seth F. Kreimer
Duke University School of Law and University of Pennsylvania Law School

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64.

Rights Against Rules: The Moral Structure of American Constitutional Law

Posted: 18 Dec 1998
Matthew D. Adler
Duke University School of Law

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65.

Judicial Restraint in the Administrative State: Beyond the Countermajoritarian Difficulty

145 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 759, 1997.
Posted: 15 Jul 1997
Matthew D. Adler
Duke University School of Law

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