A rigorous, accessible home for the ideas, evidence, institutions, and debates surrounding welfare and well-being.
Start with the definition →Welfarism as a theory of value, welfare, and moral evaluation.
Moral theory, justice, tradeoffs, and ethical decision-making.
Social welfare, policy evaluation, distribution, and measurement.
Welfare states, social policy, governance, and institutional design.
Well-being, capabilities, living standards, and quality of life.
Animal well-being, sentience, welfare science, and policy.
Stakeholders, corporate purpose, and governance welfarism.
An emerging research area concerning possible machine welfare and moral status.
What recursive self-improvement in AI could mean for humanity, and why welfare-economic reasoning offers a practical framework for managing the risk under deep uncertainty.
Read research note →Simple aggregation, prioritarianism, egalitarianism, and rights-based constraints — four different answers to how welfare gains and losses should be weighed against each other.
Read research note →Why artificial systems raise the question of moral status differently than animals do, and why the uncertainty itself is starting to matter for AI governance.
Read research note →We are developing a transparent framework for measuring and comparing welfare-relevant outcomes and institutions. Methodology comes before rankings.
Read the methodology →