Fin Moorhouse and Luca Righetti

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Fin Moorhouse is a Research Scholar at Oxford University’s Future of Humanity Institute, having previously completed a BA in Philosophy at Cambridge. Fin works on creative and writing projects relating to effective altruism and longtermism, and assists the philosopher Toby Ord.

Luca Righetti is a Research Scholar at Oxford University's Future of Humanity Institute, having previously completed a BA in Economics at Cambridge. Luca has also worked with the Oxford Martin School on climate change, the Simon Institute on institutional design, and Harvard University's Berkman Klein Center on cyberspace. He will be an advisor to the UK Government's Office for AI.

Fin and Luca co-host the podcast ‘Hear This Idea’.

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Jun 21, 2021 ∙ 26 min

Institutions for the Long Run: Taking Future Generations Seriously in Government

Introduction This article sets out the case for taking future generations seriously through our political institutions. We make three central claims. First, future people matter, and political institutions ought to reflect this. We make this case by appealing to the importance of broad political enfranchisement, and then to the more general moral significance of future people. Second, our political institutions do not yet take the interests of future generations sufficiently seriously...