2016 Normative Ethics and Welfare Economics Conference
Harvard Business School Campus
Chao Center, Room 340 (simulcast rooms: Chao 300 & Hawes 202)
Friday’s Schedule, 10/21
8 am
Harvard University shuttle bus departs Hyatt Regency Cambridge, 575 Memorial Drive
8:15 am
Breakfast
8:45 am
Opening Remarks
Organizers
9 am
Itai Sher, University of California San Diego
Matt Weinzierl, Harvard University
Session 1: Population Ethics
Presenters
Discussant
Partha Dasgupta, University of Cambridge
Johann Frick, Princeton University
Glen Weyl, Microsoft Research and Yale University
10:30 am
Coffee Break
11 am
Session 2: Reasons and Preferences
Presenters
Discussant
Justin Snedegar, University of St. Andrews
Itai Sher, University of California San Diego
Caspar Hare, MIT
12:30 pm
Luncheon
2 pm
Session 3: Public Reason
Presenters
Discussant
Matt Weinzierl, Harvard University
Sean Ingham, University of Georgia
Lucas Stanczyk, Harvard University
3:30 pm
Coffee Break
4 pm
Session 4: Boundaries of Markets
Presenters
Discussant
Michael Sandel, Harvard University
Al Roth, Stanford University
Stefanie Stantcheva, Harvard University
5:30 pm
Break
6 pm
Reception and Dinner (for Presenters & Discussants)
Harvest Restaurant, 44 Brattle Street, Cambridge
A Harvard University shuttle bus will depart from Spangler Patio at 5:30 pm, and will
drop off at the Hyatt Regency after dinner.
2016 Normative Ethics and Welfare Economics Conference
Harvard Business School Campus
Chao Center, Room 340 (simulcast rooms: Chao 300 & Hawes 202)
Saturday’s Schedule. 10/22
8 am
Harvard University shuttle bus departs Hyatt Regency Cambridge, 575 Memorial Drive
8:30 am
Breakfast
9 am
Session 5: Business Ethics
Presenters
Discussant
Rebecca Henderson, Harvard University
Karthik Ramanna, University of Oxford
Wayne Norman, Duke University
Nien-hê Hsieh, Harvard University
10:30 am
Coffee Break
11 am
Session 6: Behavioral Economics and Welfare Economics
Presenters
Discussant
John Doris, Washington University in St. Louis
Julia Haas, Rhodes College
Dan Benjamin, University of Southern California
Ben Lockwood, University of Pennsylvania
12:30 pm
Luncheon
1:30 pm
Session 7: Prioritarianism
Presenters
Discussant
3 pm
Coffee Break
3:30 pm
Closing Panel
Presenters
Moderator
5 pm
Matthew Adler, Duke University
Hilary Greaves, University of Oxford
Jerry Green, Harvard University
Marc Fleurbaey, Princeton University
Dan Hausman, University of Wisconsin Madison
Greg Mankiw, Harvard University
Tim Scanlon, Harvard University
Nathan Hendren, Harvard University
Adjourn
At the conclusion of the Conference, shuttle transport back to the Hyatt Regency, or to
Logan Airport, will not be provided.
Conference funded by the Division of Research and Faculty Development of Harvard Business School, the
Harvard Foundations of Human Behavior Initiative, and the Harvard Philosophy department.