TY - JOUR AU - Bykvist, Krister PY - 2021/07/14 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - How to Handle Trade-Offs in Pandemics JF - Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics JA - EJPE VL - 14 IS - 1 SE - Special Issue DO - 10.23941/ejpe.v14i1.609 UR - https://ejpe.org/journal/article/view/609 SP - 138–151 AB - <p>Pandemics and other similar crises force us to make difficult moral trade-offs. It is tempting to think that this challenge should be met by invoking fundamental moral principles. This is a mistake. Instead, we need to work hard at designing institutions that enable the officeholders to make reasonable decisions under both fundamental ethical disagreement and empirical/evaluative uncertainty. It is argued that this is best done by supplementing the ethical-cum-legal platforms already in use with an ethical framework inspired by social welfare theory.</p> ER -