{"id":528,"date":"2015-11-23T17:51:36","date_gmt":"2015-11-23T17:51:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/?p=528"},"modified":"2015-11-26T16:24:57","modified_gmt":"2015-11-26T16:24:57","slug":"how-not-to-make-everyone-better-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/how-not-to-make-everyone-better-off\/","title":{"rendered":"How (Not) to Make Everyone Better Off"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: left\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000\">Anna Mahtani<\/span><\/strong><!--more--><\/h3>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><a href=\"http:\/\/media.rawvoice.com\/lse_europeaninstitute\/richmedia.lse.ac.uk\/europeaninstitute\/20151123_FFEP_howNotToMakeEveryoneBetterOff.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">Listen to the podcast<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>6.30 \u2013 8.00pm\u00a0\u00a0|\u00a0\u00a0Monday \u00a023 November 2015<br \/>\nWolfson Theatre, LSE<\/p>\n<p><strong>Speaker<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.co.uk\/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=web&amp;cd=13&amp;cad=rja&amp;uact=8&amp;ved=0CGgQFjAMahUKEwi02LSDs-rHAhXGOBQKHfrWDL8&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Flse.academia.edu%2FAnnaMahtani&amp;usg=AFQjCNG84TZA0cfEZD9Nzq2HXM9_LppxnQ&amp;sig2=NXceL3Zp5T2LulGnfBHWig\" target=\"_blank\">Anna Mahtani<\/a>, Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method\u00a0(LSE)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Chair<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lse.ac.uk\/europeanInstitute\/research\/forumForEuropeanPhilosophy\/whosWho\/Fellow-Jonathan-Birch.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Jonathan Birch<\/a>, Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method\u00a0(LSE) and Forum for European Philosophy Fellow<\/p>\n<p>Policymakers often aim for so-called \u2018Pareto improvements\u2019\u2014changes that make at least one person better off and no one worse off. This may sound innocuous, but is it always a sensible idea? Philosopher Anna Mahtani argues that there is more to the notion of a Pareto improvement than meets the eye.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lse.ac.uk\/mapsAndDirections\/findingYourWayAroundLSE.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Map of LSE campus<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">#FEPLSE<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anna Mahtani<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1169,"featured_media":1619,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_expiration-date-status":"saved","_expiration-date":1448317800,"_expiration-date-type":"","_expiration-date-categories":[],"_expiration-date-options":{"expireType":"category","id":528,"category":["15","87","55","116"],"categoryTaxonomy":"category"}},"categories":[109],"tags":[87,55],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-podcast","tag-philosophysocialsciences","tag-politicalphilosophy"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/files\/2015\/11\/Making-everyone-better-off2-small.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6zUjQ-8w","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}