Part of the Climate Change and Environment Seminar Series (LSE).<\/p>\n
Until very recently in policy design and evaluation, economists have shied away from equity analysis – the distribution of benefits and costs across stakeholders – and have focused instead on economic efficiency as their primary performance criterion.<\/p>\n
Speaker:<\/strong> Steven Schilizzi, School of Agricultural and Resource Economics, The University of Western Australia<\/p>\n November 2010 seminar by Steven Schilizzi<\/strong><\/p>\n Until very recently in policy design and evaluation, economists have shied away from equity analysis – the distribution of benefits and costs across stakeholders – and have focused instead on economic efficiency as their primary performance criterion.<\/p>\n Yet it is well known that political constituencies place at least as great a weight on social equity (fairness, justice) as on efficiency, if not greater.<\/p>\n One reason for this discrepancy is that defining equity is context-dependent. It has thus been viewed as a slippery concept, unfit for rational analysis.<\/p>\n In this seminar, we show this is not the case.<\/p>\n Once the multidimensional nature of equity is acknowledged, field theory can be brought to bear to analyse how equity depends non-randomly on context. Equity-efficiency trade-offs can then also be analysed in a context-dependent way.<\/p>\n We tested this approach by generating equity judgment data through surveys and controlled lab experiments.<\/p>\n It was clear that:<\/p>\n Steven Schilizzi was born in Canada, obtained his PhD in Paris in the field of energy analysis and economics, and worked for INRA in France for a number of years before moving to Australia in 1995.<\/p>\n Since then, Steven has taught and conducted research at the University of Western Australia in Perth. He has lectured in the areas of environmental and resource economics; business and the environment; policy analysis; agricultural economics; project and risk analysis.<\/p>\n Steven’s main research interests have been the economics and sustainability of agricultural systems, the economics of conservation tenders as a contract allocation mechanism, and, more recently, integrating social equity into economic and policy analysis.<\/p>\n In both these latter areas he has been using economic experiments as a research tool.<\/p>\n Steven has collaborated with colleagues in Germany, France and Canada, and has headed two research projects in Vietnam.<\/p>\n He is currently Deputy Head of the School of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of Western Australia.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n Part of the Climate Change and Environment Seminar Series (LSE). Until very recently in policy design and evaluation, economists have…<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":0,"template":"","tags":[312,309,695],"event-type":[38],"topic_area":[],"class_list":["post-6191","event","type-event","status-publish","hentry","tag-cost-benefit-analysis","tag-equity","tag-policy-design","event-type-policy-seminars"],"acf":{"start_date":{"ref_value":"field_52f56b18a98ba","value":"20101130","type":false,"post_type":""},"start_time":{"ref_value":"field_52f56b33a98bb","value":"","type":false,"post_type":""},"end_date":{"ref_value":"field_52f56bb58f239","value":"20101130","type":false,"post_type":""},"end_time":{"ref_value":"field_52f56bd38f23a","value":"","type":false,"post_type":""},"event_venue":{"ref_value":"field_531c65c575d35","value":"LSE","type":false,"post_type":""},"eventbrite_link":{"ref_value":"field_52f59e0b20728","value":"","type":false,"post_type":""},"profile_link":{"ref_value":"field_52f164b5189e9","value":["social-equity-context-dependence-and-analytical-rigour-can-they-be-brought-together-for-better-policy-design"],"type":"relationship","post_type":""},"spotlight":{"ref_value":"field_52f80896506d3","value":"","type":false,"post_type":""},"external_speaker":{"ref_value":"field_5374dcb208782","value":"","type":false,"post_type":""},"exclude_from_sync":{"ref_value":"field_560538b0e7350","value":"0","type":false,"post_type":""},"location":{"ref_value":"field_559cf9dc612b6","value":"","type":false,"post_type":""},"rss_newsletter":{"ref_value":"field_54f5c2c1544d8","value":"","type":false,"post_type":""}},"yoast_head":"\nAbstract of ‘Social Equity, Context-Dependence and Analytical Rigour’ seminar<\/h2>\n
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Biography of Steven Schilizzi<\/h2>\n