Animal Economics

Nicolas Treich is a research associate at the Toulouse School of Economics and National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and the Environment (INRAE) in Toulouse, France. A pioneer in the emerging field of animal economics, he has authored over a dozen publications in leading economics journals and has delivered numerous keynote lectures on the economics of animal welfare.

• Preliminaries, 1. Introduction; 2. Animals in this world; Part I. The Direct Approach: 3. Sentientism; 4. Assessing animal welfare; 5. Utility potentials; 6. The social welfare function; 7. A simple consumption model; 8. Animal welfare standards; 9. Animal population ethics; 10. Valuing animal welfare; Part II. The Indirect Approach: 11. Proanimal concerns: empirical studies; 12. Behavioral studies; 13. Proanimal concerns: theoretical aspects; 14. An economic model of the meat paradox; 15. Some economics of pets; 16. Markets and morals; 17. Further excursions; 18. Conclusion.

'The best discussion, by far, of how to explore animal welfare with the help of economics. Careful and rigorous analysis, produced with palpable moral conviction. This is a sensational achievement.' Cass R. Sunstein, Robert Walmsley Professor, Harvard University, and author, Manipulation