My research interests are mainly in welfare economics, broadly defined to include both the foundations of individual and social welfare (e.g., social choice and decision theory) and applications to important issues such as economic growth, inequality, catastrophic risks, and the economics of artificial intelligence.
Working papers
Classical Utilitarianism Revisited. 31 May 2025.
Publications
"Is Extinction Risk Mitigation Uniquely Cost-Effective? Not in Standard Population Models" (with Maya Eden). In H. Greaves, J. Barrett, and D. Thorstad (eds), Essays on Longtermism: Present Action for the Distant Future, Oxford University Press. 2025.
Coverage: Reflective Altruism, Good Thoughts"Must Prioritarians Be Antiegalitarian?".
Economics & Philosophy, 2024, 40(2), 419-433."Two Impossibility Results for Social Choice under Individual Indifference Intransitivity".
Social Choice and Welfare, 2023, 61:919-936.
Work in progress
A psychophysical foundation for individual and social discounting. (Draft coming soon!)
A new foundation for linear and geometric averaging. (Draft coming soon!)
Other research
"A Beef with Growth? An Empirical Analysis of Income and Animal Farming" (with Caroline Falkman Olsson). Bachelor's thesis.
"Surveillance Cameras and Crime: A Review of Randomized and Natural Experiments",
Published in the Journal of Scandinavian Studies in Criminology and Crime Prevention.