Intergenerational Equity and Sustainability

Name: Intergenerational Equity and Sustainability
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ISBN: 9780230007864

ISBN-10: 0230007864

ISBN-13: 9780230007864

Edition: 2007

Authors: John E. Roemer, Kotaro Suzumura, Michael Kaser

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This edited work addresses distributive justice across generations. How should the welfare of the present generation be traded off against the welfare of future generations? Contributors in the field of economics and philosophers offer original theories on intergenerational equity, efficiency, and rationality.

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List price: $109.99
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Limited
Publication date: 11/8/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 368
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English

John E. Roemer is Elizabeth S. and A. Varick Stout Professor of Political Science and Economics at Yale University.



List of Figures


The International Economic Association


Acknowledgements


List of Contributors


List of Abbreviations and Acronyms


Introduction




Equity Among Overlapping Generations



Pension Contributions and Capital Accumulation




Equity and Efficiency in Overlapping Generations Economies




Social Security Pensions and Intergenerational Equity: The Japanese Case




Ranking Infinite Utility Streams



A New Equity Condition for Infinite Utility Streams and the Possibility of Being Paretian




Possibility Theorems for Equitably Aggregating Infinite Utility Streams




On the Existence of Paretian Social Welfare Quasi-orderings for Infinite Utility Streams with Extended Anonymity




Pareto Principle and Intergenerational Equity: Immediate Impatience, Universal Indifference and Impossibility




Intergenerational Evaluations



Formal Welfarism and Intergenerational Equity




Intertemporal Social Evaluation




Intergenerational Fairness




Person-Affecting Paretian Egalitarianism with Variable Population Size




Sustainability and Human Development



Intergenerational Justice and Sustainability Under the Leximin Ethic




Intergenerational Justice, International Relations and Sustainability




Intergenerational Equity and Human Development




Long-Run Issues of Intergenerational Equity



Toward a Just Savings Principle




Normative Approaches to the Issues of Global Warming: Responsibility and Compensation




Fundamental Incompatibility between Economic Efficiency, Intergenerational Equity and Sustainability



Index