Matthew D. Adler is the Richard A. Horvitz Professor of Law and Professor of Economics, Philosophy, and Public Policy at Duke University, and is the founding director of the Duke Center for Law, Economics and Public Policy. His scholarship is interdisciplinary, drawing from both welfare economics and normative ethics. Adler is the author of New Foundations of Cost-Benefit Analysis (Harvard, 2006; co-authored with Eric Posner) and Well-Being and Fair Distribution: Beyond Cost-Benefit Analysis (Oxford, 2012). He edited the Oxford Handbook of Well-Being and Public Policy with Marc Fleurbaey (2016). He was an editor of the journal Legal Theory until 2017, and is now an editor of the journal Economics and Philosophy.

Adler '91 explains how the social welfare function framework, a tool from theoretical economics, can guide governmental policymaking. According to Adler, the framework is more unbiased than a cost--benefit analysis and allows policymakers to consider both efficiency and equity. By combining economic and philosophical scholarship, Adler illuminates the framework's three dimensions: a well-being measure, a rule for ranking outcomes, and an uncertainty module.

Matthew D. Adler is the Richard A. Horvitz Professor of Law and Professor of Economics, Philosophy, and Public Policy at Duke University, and is the founding director of the Duke Center for Law, Economics and Public Policy. His scholarship is interdisciplinary, drawing from both welfare economics and normative ethics. Adler is the author of New Foundations of Cost-Benefit Analysis (Harvard, 2006; co-authored with Eric Posner) and Well-Being and Fair Distribution: Beyond Cost-Benefit Analysis (Oxford, 2012). He edited the Oxford Handbook of Well-Being and Public Policy with Marc Fleurbaey (2016). He was an editor of the journal Legal Theory until 2017, and is now an editor of the journal Economics and Philosophy.

Adler '91 explains how the social welfare function framework, a tool from theoretical economics, can guide governmental policymaking. According to Adler, the framework is more unbiased than a cost--benefit analysis and allows policymakers to consider both efficiency and equity. By combining economic and philosophical scholarship, Adler illuminates the framework's three dimensions: a well-being measure, a rule for ranking outcomes, and an uncertainty module.

Matthew D. Adler is the Richard A. Horvitz Professor of Law and Professor of Economics, Philosophy, and Public Policy at Duke University, and is the founding director of the Duke Center for Law, Economics and Public Policy. His scholarship is interdisciplinary, drawing from both welfare economics and normative ethics. Adler is the author of New Foundations of Cost-Benefit Analysis (Harvard, 2006; co-authored with Eric Posner) and Well-Being and Fair Distribution: Beyond Cost-Benefit Analysis (Oxford, 2012). He edited the Oxford Handbook of Well-Being and Public Policy with Marc Fleurbaey (2016). He was an editor of the journal Legal Theory until 2017, and is now an editor of the journal Economics and Philosophy.

Adler '91 explains how the social welfare function framework, a tool from theoretical economics, can guide governmental policymaking. According to Adler, the framework is more unbiased than a cost--benefit analysis and allows policymakers to consider both efficiency and equity. By combining economic and philosophical scholarship, Adler illuminates the framework's three dimensions: a well-being measure, a rule for ranking outcomes, and an uncertainty module.