@lastpositivist Yew-Kwang Ng was one of the first to publish on wild animal welfare (back in the 1990s) and is a pretty distinguished economist. He also co-authored some articles with Singer, and has published on EA and been interviewed by 80k. https://t
@robinhanson "Under the assumptions of concave and symmetrical functions relating costs to enjoyment and suffering, evolutionary economizing results in the excess of total suffering over total enjoyment." From Ng, 1995, p.272: https://t.co/jZHACWlw7x
RT @Treich13: Ng (1995) https://t.co/Zg1TN72CGs Proposes to define a new field at the intersection of social choice and biology, coined “w…
Ng (1995) https://t.co/Zg1TN72CGs Proposes to define a new field at the intersection of social choice and biology, coined “welfare biology”, that studies the welfare of living things with the tools of evolutionary biology, population dynamics, and economi
The welfare of wild animals is an issue that hasn’t received nearly as much attention from biologists as it deserves. I’m hoping for a new field of #welfarebiology (see for example https://t.co/Fvlmfi70SX)
"Towards welfare biology: Evolutionary economics of animal consciousness and suffering" https://t.co/dRjUMIpdpX #welfarebiology #econ