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Matthew D. Adler is the Richard A. Horvitz Distinguished Professor of Law and Professor of Economics, Philosophy, and Public Policy at Duke University. He is the founding director of the Duke Center for Law, Economics and Public Policy and holds a 3-year research fellowship at the London School of Economics.
- Education:
- B.A., Yale University (1984)
- J.D., Yale University (1991)
- M.Litt., University of Oxford (1987) - Marshall Scholar
Research Interests: Adler specializes in prioritarianism, a theory that refines utilitarianism by prioritizing the worse-off. He integrates welfare economics, normative ethics, and legal theory to develop policy analysis tools like social welfare functions with distributional weights. His work spans climate change, risk regulation, health policy, and inequality measurement.
Publications and Contributions: Adler has authored monographs including New Foundations of Cost-Benefit Analysis and Well-Being and Fair Distribution, and co-edited the Oxford Handbook of Well-Being and Public Policy. His recent work explores implementing prioritarianism in policy domains such as the social cost of carbon, health economics, and intergenerational equity.
- Scientific Awards:
- Marshall Scholar
- Ludwig M. Lachmann Professorial Research Fellow
Professional Affiliations: Adler was an editor of Legal Theory until 2017 and is now an editor of Economics and Philosophy. He has held visiting professorships at Columbia, Chicago, and Virginia Law Schools.
