Accounting for consequences and claims in policy
Fully appraising any policy requires us to capture all of its ripple effects and not simply the size of the splash when the pebble of intervention hits the water. It also requires that we weight the value of those effects according to morally relevant characteristics of people, such as their age. In this chapter, I discuss the consequences that should feed into policy appraisal and the claims that different groups may have on resources.
30 August 2022
Published in Wellbeing: Alternative policy perspectives (2022), Edited by Timothy Besley and Irene Bucelli, pp. 27-48, LSE Press
Accounting for consequences and claims in policy
This Chapter is part of the centre's Community Wellbeing programme.
This publication comes under the following theme: Targeting policy at wellbeing