Joshua Tasoff

I am trained as a behavioral economist. I have shifted about one third to one half of my research to animal-welfare economics because I believe that factory farming might be the one thing that humanity does that causes the most suffering. The rest of my research is spread over many topics including beliefs-based utility, intrinsic preferences for information, exponential-growth bias, overconfidence, and I even have a paper on microbial trade. I am currently working on projects in animal-welfare economics, the science of entertainment in the context of video games, the economics of thinking, and anticipatory utility.