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Endogenous preferences, environmental economics, and welfare

Lukas Beck

Politics, Philosophy & Economics2026https://doi.org/10.1177/1470594x251412790article
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This article targets the problems of endogenous preferences for welfare assessment in the context of large-scale interventions that, for instance, concern us in environmental economics. Prominent economists have argued that the problem of endogenous preferences is particularly pressing in these cases. However, I argue that while there are promising solutions to deal with this problem when it comes to small-scale interventions (e.g. nudging), those do not work for large-scale interventions. Based on this, I offer a framework that allows us to preserve the central role of preferences for welfare assessment also in cases of large-scale interventions.

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@article{lukas2026,
  title        = {{Endogenous preferences, environmental economics, and welfare}},
  author       = {Lukas Beck},
  journal      = {Politics, Philosophy & Economics},
  year         = {2026},
  doi          = {https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1177/1470594x251412790},
}

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