Thursday, October 20, 2016

Normative Ethics and Welfare Economics at HBS, and Behavioral Ethics, also at HBS (at the same time:)

There are two (competing) conferences on ethics at Harvard this weekend, one on Friday and Saturday and the other on Friday, both at HBS.

I'll be speaking at this one:

2016 Normative Ethics and Welfare Economics Conference
October 21-22, Harvard Business School
Organizers: Itai Sher and Matt Weinzierl

All sessions will take place in the Chao Centerroom 340
Transportation to the HBS campus from the Hyatt Regency Cambridge Hotel will be provided.
Oct 21

A Harvard University shuttle bus will depart the Hyatt at 8:00 am

8:15-8:45

Breakfast

8:45-9:00

Opening Remarks

9:00-10:30

Population Ethics

Partha Dasgupta and Johann Frick
Discussant: Glen Weyl

Papers:
Birth and Death
Socially Embedded Preferences, Environmental Externalities, and Reproductive Rights
10:30-11:00

Break

11:00-12:30

Reasons and Preferences

Justin Snedegar and Itai Sher
Discussant: Caspar Hare

Papers:
Overlapping Reasons

Comparative Value and the Weight of Reasons
12:30-2:00

Lunch

2:00-3:30

Public Reason

Matt Weinzierl and Sean Ingham
Discussant: Lucas Stanczyk

Papers:
A Dilemma for Theories of Public Reason
A Welfarist Role for Nonwelfarist Rules: An Example with Envy
3:30-4:00

Break

4:00-5:30

Forbidden Transactions

Michael Sandel and Al Roth
Discussant: Stefanie Stantcheva
5:30-6:00

Break

6:00-8:30

Dinner for Speakers & Discussants

Location TBA

Transportation will be provided
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Oct 22

A Harvard University shuttle bus will depart the Hyatt at 8:00 am
8:30-9:00

Breakfast

9:00-10:30

Business Ethics

10:30-11:00

Break

11:00-12:30

Behavioral Economics and Welfare Economics

John Doris, Julia Haas, and Dan Benjamin
Discussant: Ben Lockwood

Papers:
Moral Psychonomics
Reconsidering Risk Aversion
12:30-1:30 

Lunch​​

1:30 - 3:00

Prioritarianism

Matthew Adler and Hilary Greaves
Discussant: Jerry Green

Papers:
Justice, Claims and Prioritarianism: Room for Desert?
Antiprioritarianism
3:00-3:30 

Break

3:30-5:00 

Closing Panel

Marc Fleurbaey, Dan Hausman, Greg Mankiw, Tim Scanlon
Moderator: Nathan Hendren

Adjourn




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It turns out that there is a lot of interest in ethics at Harvard, and so there is another ethics conference at the same time, also meeting at HBS:



Symposium - "Behavioral Ethics: Philosophical and Psychological Perspectives" Featuring Peter Singer






Date: 

Friday, October 21, 2016 (All day)

See also: Ethics


Location: 

Spangler Auditorium, Harvard Business School

HKS SAFRA HBS logos
Organizers: Max Bazerman and Joshua Greene
Sponsors: Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, Harvard Business School, Center for Public Leadership at Harvard Kennedy School
This symposium will integrate psychology and philosophy to explore a goal state for ethical behavior, why we fail to achieve that goal state, and what society can do create more ethical behavior.
Event Participant Bios

9:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
Welcome
Danielle Allen and Max Bazerman

10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.         
What does the greatest good look like in contemporary society?
Peter Singer, "What is the Most Good We Can Do?"
Joshua Greene, TBD
Steven Pinker, “Measuring and Defining Progress”

12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.           
Lunch Break

1:15 p.m. - 2:45 p.m.             
Why don’t we get there?
Mahzarin Banaji, "The Difficulty with Discretion"
Fiery Cushman, “Is Non-Consequentialism a Feature or a Bug?”
Michael Norton, "Spreading the Wealth (and Health): Evidence for a Universal Desire for Greater Equality"
3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
What can be done to change behavior (nudging and beyond)?
Francesca Gino, “To Do or Not To Do: Motivating Ethical Behavior”
Iris Bohnet, "Gender Equality by Design"
Max Bazerman, "Prescriptions for Creating Greater Good"

4:30 p.m. - 4:45 p.m.             
Closing Statement
Max Bazerman

1 comment:

sergedago said...

I had a thought - that I had evoked in one or two older comments - to see you having a dialogue with Sandel. I think that it was great and very interesting