Risks of refusing normative statements
Lack of consensual welfare criteria for population ethics
How should welfare criteria account for people caring about each other?
How to compare individuals' gains and losses?
How to measure inequality?
The tyranny of aggregation vs. the tyranny of non-aggregation
Independence of irrelevant alternatives
Policy recommendations vs. policy implications
Approaches to obtain policy implications
Should policy makers rely on decision theory to deal with uncertainty?
The role of economists when addressing optimal policies
How can we avoid policy recommendations in the dark?
How compelling is it to use the sum of concave transformations of utilities as a natural benchmark for policy analysis?
Paolo Piacquadio
Institute of Economics, University of St. Gallen, VarnbĂĽelstrasse 19, 9000 St. Gallen