Prof. David de la Croix (IRES/LIDAM, UCLouvain) and Prof. Matthias Doepke (Northwestern University) won the 2022 runner-up prize for best overall paper in global priorities research for their paper "A soul’s view of the optimal population problem". Congratulations to them!
Who awards the Prizes in Global Priorities?
The Prize in Global Priorities Research is awarded by The Global Priorities Institute (University of Oxford) and the Forethought Foundation.
What is global priorities research?
The forethought Foundation defines the global priorities research as an academic discipline at the intersection of philosophy, economics, and the social sciences. It aims to determine how individuals and institutions should spend their limited resources in order to improve the world by as much as possible.