Research Publications Articles Papers By Mark Bryant Budolfson


by Mark Budolfson


Selected papers

Broad Cross-National Public Support for Accelerated COVID-19 Vaccine Trial Designs, forthcoming in Vaccine (by David Broockman, Joshua Kalla, Alexander Guerrero, Mark Budolfson, Nir Eyal, Nicholas P. Jewell, Monica Magalhaes, Jasjeet S. Sekhon)

Valuing Health Impacts in Climate Policy: Ethical Issues and Economic Challenges, forthcoming in Health Affairs (by Noah Scovronick, Maddalena Ferranna, Francis Dennig, and Mark Budolfson)

The impact of human health co-benefits on evaluations of global climate policy, Nature Communications 10: 2095 (2019) (by Noah Scovronick, Mark Budolfson, Francis Dennig, Frank Errickson, Marc Fleurbaey, Wei Peng, Robert Socolow, Dean Spears, and Fabian Wagner)

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)

Impact of population growth and population ethics on climate change mitigation policy, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 114(46): 12338-12343 (2017) (by Noah Scovronick, Mark Budolfson, Francis Dennig, Marc Fleurbaey, Asher Siebert, Robert Socolow, Dean Spears, and Fabian Wagner)

Human health and the social cost of carbon: a primer and a call to action, Epidemiology 30(5): 642–647 (2019) (by Noah Scovronick, Valeri Vasquez, Frank Errickson, Francis Dennig, Antonio Gasparrini, Shakoor Hajat, Dean Spears, and Mark Budolfson)


Optimal climate policy and the future of world economic development, World Bank Economic Review 33(1): 21–40 (2019) (by Mark Budolfson, Francis Dennig, Marc Fleurbaey, Noah Scovronick, Asher Siebert, Robert Socolow, Dean Spears, and Fabian Wagner)

The Comparative Importance for Optimal Climate Policy of Discounting, Inequalities, and Catastrophes, Climatic Change 145(3-4): 481-494 (2017) (by Mark Budolfson, Francis Dennig, Marc Fleurbaey, Asher Siebert, and Robert Socolow)

Optimal global climate policy and regional carbon prices, in Handbook on the Economics of Climate Change, Edward Elgar Press (2020) (by Mark Budolfson and Francis Dennig)

Maximizing the Public Health Benefits from Climate Action, Environmental Science & Technology 52(7): 3852-3853 (2018) (by George Thurston, Sara De Matteis, Kris Murray, Pauline Scheelbeck, Noah Scovronick, Mark Budolfson, Dean Spears, and Paolo Vineis)

The Social Cost of Carbon: Valuing Inequality, Risk, and Population for Climate Policy, Monist 102: 84–109 (2019) (by Marc Fleurbaey, Maddalena Ferrana, Mark Budolfson, Francis Dennig, Kian Mintz-Woo, Robert Socolow, Dean Spears, and Stephane Zuber)

Does the Repugnant Conclusion have important implications for axiology or for public policy?, forthcoming in Oxford Handbook of Population Ethics, Oxford UP (by Mark Budolfson and Dean Spears)

Deflationary Responses to the Challenges of Population Ethics for Public Policy, forthcoming in Philosophy and Climate Change, Oxford UP (by Gustaf Arrhenius, Mark Budolfson, and Dean Spears)

Why the Repugnant Conclusion is Inescapable (by Mark Budolfson and Dean Spears)

Public Policy, Consequentialism, the Environment, and Non-Human Animals, Oxford Handbook of Consequentialism, Oxford UP (2020) (by Mark Budolfson and Dean Spears)

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)



Feasibility Wedges and a Meta-Architecture for Agreement: Engineering an Effective and Ethical Climate Treaty (under revision -- see esp the last part of Political Realism, Feasibility Wedges, and Opportunities for Collective Action on Climate Change for some of the arguments of this paper)

Consumer Ethics, Food Ethics, and Beyond, in College Ethics, 2nd edition, Oxford UP (2020)
Is it Wrong to Eat Meat from Factory Farms? If So, Why?, in The Moral Complexities of Eating Meat, Oxford UP (2015)

The Ethics of the Marketplace and a Surprisingly Deep Question for Normative Theory: What are Consumers Required to do When Products are Produced in Morally Objectionable Ways? (This older paper has been superseded by the preceding three papers.)

Consumer Ethics, Harm Footprints, and the Empirical Dimensions of Food Choices, in Philosophy Comes to Dinner, Routledge (2015)

Food, the Environment, and Global Justice, in the Oxford Handbook of Food Ethics, Oxford UP (2018)


Non-Cognitivism and Rational Inference, Philosophical Studies 153: pp. 243-259 (2011)




Books

Philosophy and Climate Change, forthcoming, Oxford UP (co-edited by Mark Budolfson, Tristram McPherson, and David Plunkett)

Oxford Handbook of Food Ethics, Oxford UP (2018) (co-edited by Anne Barnhill, Mark Budolfson, and Tyler Doggett)

Food, Ethics, and Society, Oxford UP (2016) (co-authored and co-edited by Anne Barnhill, Mark Budolfson, and Tyler Doggett)



Other (for a broader audience)
The Future of Meat, Roundtable at the Museum of Food and Drink (MOFAD) (with Peter Singer, Isha Datar, Patrick Martins, and Dave Arnold)

How Do You Put a Price on Nature?, Swedish Public Radio Interview (with Paul Ehrlich, Asa Soutukorva, Thomas Haan, Gretchen Daily, Robert Griffin, and Larry Crowder)