Global Challenges Project - Library
  • EA Student Groups Handbook
The Social Discount Rate

The Social Discount Rate

ℹ️
This is a linkpost for Shelly Kagan's Ethics and the Future readings
🔗
Cowen, Discount Rates Table, Stubborn Attachments (1 page) gives a quick sense of how even a “modest” discount rate effectively wipes out the significance of the long term future.
🔗
Parfit, Reasons and Persons, Appendix F (7 pages) for arguments against the social discount rate.
🔗
Cowen and Parfit, “Against the Social Discount Rate” (11 pages.)
🔗
Ord, The Precipice, Appendix A (6 pages)
🔗
Greaves, “Discounting for Public Policy,” section 7, pages 404-409 (5 pages)
🔗
Mogensen, “The Only Ethical Argument for Positive Delta” (33 pages)
🔗
Broome, “Discounting the Future” (29 pages)

Other topics to check out

Topics

Expected value of the future
Expected value of the future
Expected value of the future
Is the expected value of the future positive or negative? A crucial consideration for the value of extinction risk reduction.
Population Ethics
Population Ethics
Population Ethics
Overview of population ethics relevant to longtermism
Existential Risk
Existential Risk
Existential Risk
What is an existential risk and what is the case for treating them as a moral priority?