Mark Budolfson works on interdisciplinary issues in ethics, economics, and public policy, often in connection with sustainable development, planetary health, and collective action problems such as climate change that arise with common resources and public goods. His recent work quantifies the socio-economic distribution of impacts of climate and air pollution policies, and updates estimates of optimal policy by taking those inequalities into account.
Books:
Budolfson, M., McPherson, T., & Plunkett, D. (2021). Philosophy and climate change. Oxford University Press.
Book chapters:
Arrhenius, G., Budolfson, M., & Spears, D. (2021). Does climate change policy depend importantly on population ethics? Deflationary responses to the challenges of population ethics for public policy. In Philosophy and Climate Change (pp. 111-136). Oxford University Press.
Budolfson, M. (2021). Political realism, feasibility wedges, and opportunities for collective action on climate change. In Philosophy and Climate Change (pp. 323-345). Oxford University Press.
Budolfson, M., & Spears, D. (2020). Public policy, consequentialism, the environment, and nonhuman animals. In The Oxford Handbook of Consequentialism (pp. 592-615). Oxford University Press.
Journal articles:
Budolfson, M. (2021). Arguments for Well-Regulated Capitalism, and Implications for Global Ethics, Food, Environment, Climate Change, and beyond. Ethics and International Affairs.
Budolfson, M., Dennig, F., Errickson, F., Feindt, S., Ferranna, M., Fleurbaey, M., Klenert, D., Kornek, U., Kuruc, K., Méjean, A., Peng, W., Scovronick, N., Spears, D., Wagner, F., & Zuber, S. (2021). Climate action with revenue recycling has benefits for poverty, inequality and well-being. Nature Climate Change.
Bistline, J., Budolfson, M., & Francis, B. (2021). Deepening transparency about value-laden assumptions in energy and environmental modelling: improving best practices for both modellers and non-modellers. Climate Policy.
Budolfson, M., & Spears, D. (2021). Population Ethics and the Prospects for Fertility Policy as Climate Mitigation Policy. Journal of Development Studies.
Budolfson, M., Dennig, F., Errickson, F., Feindt, S., Ferranna, M., Fleurbaey, M., Klenert, D., Kornek, U., Kuruc, K., Méjean, A., Peng, W., Scovronick, N., Spears, D., Wagner, F., & Zuber, S. (2021). Protecting the poor with a carbon tax and equal per capita dividend. Nature Climate Change.
Scovronick, N., Anthoff, D., Dennig, F., Errickson, F., Ferranna, M., Peng, W., Spears, D., Wagner, F., & Budolfson, M. (2021). The importance of health co-benefits under different climate policy cooperation frameworks. Environmental Research Letters.
Budolfson, M. B., Anthoff, D., Dennig, F., Errickson, F., Kuruc, K., Spears, D., & Dubash, N. K. (2021). Utilitarian benchmarks for emissions and pledges promote equity, climate and development. Nature Climate Change.
Scovronick, N., Ferranna, M., Dennig, F., & Budolfson, M. (2020). Valuing health impacts in climate policy: Ethical issues and economic challenges. Health Affairs.
Scovronick, N., Vasquez, V. N., Errickson, F., Dennig, F., Gasparrini, A., Hajat, S., Spears, D., & Budolfson, M. B. (2019). Human Health and the Social Cost of Carbon: A Primer and Call to Action. Epidemiology.
Budolfson, M., Dennig, F., Fleurbaey, M., Scovronick, N., Siebert, A., Spears, D., & Wagner, F. (2019). Optimal Climate Policy and the Future of World Economic Development. World Bank Economic Review.
Scovronick, N., Budolfson, M., Dennig, F., Errickson, F., Fleurbaey, M., Peng, W., Socolow, R. H., Spears, D., & Wagner, F. (2019). The impact of human health co-benefits on evaluations of global climate policy. Nature communications.
Budolfson, M. B. (2019). The inefficacy objection to consequentialism and the problem with the expected consequences response. Philosophical Studies.
Fleurbaey, M., Ferranna, M., Budolfson, M., Dennig, F., Mintz-Woo, K., Socolow, R., Spears, D., & Zuber, S. (2019). The Social Cost of Carbon: Valuing Inequality, Risk, and Population for Climate Policy. Monist.
