Mark Budolfson

Mark Budolfson is an Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy, the Department of Geography and the Environment, and the Population Wellbeing Initiative, University of Texas at Austin. He works on topics in Ethics, Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE), Public Policy, Health, and Environment.

For more information about Mark's research, visit his website: budolfson.com

Three recently published works

Monetizing Animal Welfare Impacts for Cost-Benefit Analysis, Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis (2024) (by Mark Budolfson, Romain Espinosa, Bob Fischer, Nicolas Treich)
Animal welfare: Methods to improve policy and practice, Science 381(6653): 32-34 (2023) (by Mark Budolfson, Bob Fischer, and Noah Scovronick)
Climate action with revenue recycling has benefits for poverty, inequality, and wellbeing, Nature Climate Change 11: 1111–1116 (2021) (by Mark Budolfson, Francis Dennig, Frank Errickson, Simon Feindt, Maddalena Ferranna, Marc Fleurbaey, David Klenert, Ulrike Kornek, Kevin Kuruc, Aurélie Méjean, Wei Peng, Noah Scovronick, Dean Spears, Fabian Wagner, and Stéphane Zuber)

Three often cited works

The Hidden Zero Problem: Effective Altruism and Barriers to Marginal Impact, in Effective Altruism: Philosophical Issues, Oxford UP (2019) (by Mark Budolfson and Dean Spears)
The Inefficacy Objection to Consequentialism and the Problem with the Expected Consequences Response, Philosophical Studies 176: 1711-1724 (2018)
Inequality, climate impacts on the future poor, and carbon prices, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 112(52): 15827-15832 (2015) (by Francis Dennig, Mark Budolfson, Marc Fleurbaey, Asher Siebert, and Robert Socolow)

Projects

Ethics of coordination