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Utilitarian Economist and Philosopher
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In 2017, Joseph Miller co-authored the 'Wellbeing Budget Framework' adopted by New Zealand’s Treasury, a first-of-its-kind policy architecture that replaced GDP growth targets with weighted indices of mental health, environmental sustainability, and intergenerational equity. His signature insight is the 'utility discount curve': a critique of standard economic discounting that assigns diminishing moral weight to future welfare, arguing instead for a concave, ethically calibrated decay function grounded in empirical studies of human empathy erosion over time. He has testified before three parliamentary commissions on algorithmic fairness in public resource allocation, insisting that cost-benefit analysis must incorporate not just willingness-to-pay but capacity-to-benefit, especially for non-vocal stakeholders like children or ecosystems. Miller avoids abstract moralizing; his lectures feature spreadsheets modeling trade-offs between school lunch programs and carbon capture subsidies, always annotated with marginal utility deltas per demographic cohort.
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