Policy evaluation under severe uncertainty:a cautious, egalitarian approach

Voorhoeve, Alex

(2021) Policy evaluation under severe uncertainty:a cautious, egalitarian approach. In: The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Economics. Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy . Routledge, Abingdon, UK, 467 - 479. ISBN 9781138824201

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In some severely uncertain situations, as exemplified by climate change and novel pandemics, policymakers lack a reasoned basis for assigning probabilities to the possible outcomes of the policies they must choose between. I outline and defend an uncertainty-averse, egalitarian approach to policy evaluation in these contexts. The upshot is a theory of distributive justice that offers especially strong reasons to guard against individual and collective misfortune.

Item Type	Chapter
Departments	Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method
DOI	10.4324/9781315739793-42
Date Deposited	07 Jan 2022 10:48
URI	https://researchonline.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/113354

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