Understanding equity: a research journey

Event Date: 3 December 2014

Seminar with Alex Morton, Strathclyde Business School

ABSTRACT
 

This talk will cover some theoretical and practical problems in the handing of situations where decision makers can take a number of policy actions which have differential impacts across a population. 

We will contextualise and motivate our discussion by presenting a case study of healthcare prioritisation on the Isle of Wight and present some novel technical machinery which might help support decision making when there is a concern about inequality but a reluctance to specify precise tradeoffs between gains to different population subgroups. 

We relate our discussion to some current trends in the development of health economics, and make some observations about economic policy more generally.

Published: 11 February 2015