This important book is by a world leader in the study of social welfare. It provides an extremely useful introduction to a field that deserves a central place in all curricula. Everyone interested in public policy should be familiar with the insights and methods developed in Measuring Social Welfare. It enhances our ability to assess complex social situations, taking into account efficiency and equity simultaneously, and provides a toolkit that increases our ability
to assess options, trade-offs, and fairness."-Marc Fleurbaey, Robert E. Kuenne Professor in Economics and Humanistic Studies, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University
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.