crossing the border into the moral domain changes moral thinking in two ways:(1) the facts
at hand become “anthropocentric” facts not easily open to revision, and (2) moral reasoning …

In the past decade, interest has been rising in the development, calculation and use of
summary measures of population health, which combine information on mortality and non …

This urgent and eye-opening book makes the case that protecting humanity's future is the
central challenge of our time. If all goes well, human history is just beginning. Our species …

A critical feature of the distant future is currently unresolvable uncertainty about what will
then be the appropriate rate of return on capital to use for discounting. This paper shows that …

In Human Well-Being and the Natural Environment, Partha Dasgupta explores ways to
measure the quality of life. In developing quality-of-life indices, he pays particular attention to …

Several guidelines on cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) already exist. There are two
reasons for producing another set. The first is that traditional or, incremental, CEA ignores …

Understanding Risk addresses a central dilemma of risk decisionmaking in a democracy:
detailed scientific and technical information is essential for making decisions, but the people …

We propose a model that integrates the extralegal consequences from conviction and
impulsivity into the traditional deterrence framework. The model was tested with 252 college …

The measurement unit disability-adjusted life years (DALYs), used in recent years to quantify
the burden of diseases, injuries and risk factors on human populations, is grounded on …

In 3 experiments choices for hypothetical amounts of future health and money showed that,
contrary to normative discounted utility theory, the temporal discount rate, or annual …