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URL:https://murmitoyen.com/events/vanille/udem/detail/630096-workshop-on-th
 e-ethics-of-social-risk
LOCATION:Université de Montréal - Pavillon Lionel-Groulx\, 3150\, rue Jea
 n-Brillant\, Montréal\, QC\, Canada\, H3T 1T3
SUMMARY:Workshop on the Ethics of Social Risk
DESCRIPTION:Centre de recherche en éthique (CRÉ)
\nRisk is everywhere and
  always has been. However\, the nature of man-made risks is changing. For 
 most human beings\, though unfortunately not all\, war and various forms o
 f direct\, violent oppression are no longer among the most significant ris
 ks they face. Replacing these are forms of indirect\, systemic risk\, wher
 e the actions of other individuals or of society as a whole create signifi
 cant potential downsides for individuals.
\nTo take just two examples\, co
 nsider the near-consensus that economic activity leads to an increase in t
 he variability of climate patterns\, affecting the lives of many through m
 ore uncertain access to food and water\, and to longer spells of extreme t
 emperatures. Second\, as illustrated by the financial crisis of 2008 and s
 ubsequent years\, the current regulation of financial institutions is more
  prone to generate crises that spill over from finance into the real econo
 my and have a profound effect on the material well-being of individuals. T
 hese examples\, and many more\, raise the issue of the ethics of human act
 ivity when increased risks to others are a by-product.
\nThe workshop aims
  to address issues of risk both at a theoretical level and in a variety of
  applied policy settings. Below is a non-exhaustive list of questions that
  presentations at the workshop might address:
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\nHow to account for r
 isk and uncertainty in establishing social preferences? This poses the que
 stion of the aggregation of individual risk attitudes in a heterogeneous s
 ociety.
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\nHow to evaluate public policies on the basis of the 
 risk sharing they impose on citizens? From an operational standpoint\, how
  should risk be incorporated in cost-benefit analyses of health policies\,
  for example?
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\nHow should redistributive policies account for
  risks and uncertainties that affect members of society in different ways?
 
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\nTo what extent can and should efforts be made to reduce exp
 osure to global risks?
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\nKeynote speakers:
\nMarc Fleurbaey (Princet
 on University)Luc Bovens (London School of Economics)Christian Traeger (Un
 iversity of California\, Berkeley)
\nOrganizers:Peter Dietsch\, Philosophi
 e\, Université de MontréalJustin Leroux\, Économie appliquée\, HEC Mon
 tréal
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\nProgramme.
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