Intergenerational Equity and Sustainability

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxii

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2. Equity Among Overlapping Generations

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Pension Contributions and Capital Accumulation

      • Toshihiro Ihori

      Pages 3-19

   3. Equity and Efficiency in Overlapping Generations Economies

      • Tomoichi Shinotsuka, Koichi Suga, Kotaro Suzumura, Koichi Tadenuma

      Pages 20-35

   4. Social Security Pensions and Intergenerational Equity: The Japanese Case

      • Noriyuki Takayama

      Pages 36-52

3. Ranking Infinite Utility Streams

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 53-53

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   2. A New Equity Condition for Infinite Utility Streams and the Possibility of being Paretian

      • Geir B. Asheim, Tapan Mitra, Bertil Tungodden

      Pages 55-68

   3. Possibility Theorems for Equitably Aggregating Infinite Utility Streams

      • Kaushik Basu, Tapan Mitra

      Pages 69-84

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

      • Tapan Mitra, Kaushik Basu

      Pages 85-99

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

      • Yongsheng Xu

      Pages 100-109

4. Intergenerational Evaluations

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 111-111

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   2. Formal Welfarism and Intergenerational Equity

      • Claude d’Aspremont

      Pages 113-130

   3. Intertemporal Social Evaluation

      • Charles Blackorby, Walter Bossert, David Donaldson

      Pages 131-154

   4. Intergenerational Fairness

      • Marc Fleurbaey

      Pages 155-175

   5. Person-Affecting Paretian Egalitarianism with Variable Population Size

      • Bertil Tungodden, Peter Vallentyne

      Pages 176-200

5. Sustainability and Human Development

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 201-201

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   2. Intergenerational Justice and Sustainability Under the Leximin Ethic

      • John E. Roemer

      Pages 203-227

   3. Intergenerational Justice, International Relations and Sustainability

      • John E. Roemer, Roberto Veneziani

      Pages 228-251

   4. Intergenerational Equity and Human Development

      • Joaquim Silvestre

      Pages 252-287

6. Long-Run Issues of Intergenerational Equity

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 289-289

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This book addresses distributive justice across generations and includes original theories from distinguished economists on intergenerational equity, efficiency and rationality, which discuss policies on social security, pensions, and environmental degradation, as examples of policies of the present generation which impact upon future generations.

• development
• social security
• Social welfare
• sustainability
• Welfare
• household finance

• Yale University, USA

  John Roemer

• Hitotsubashi University, Japan

  Kotaro Suzumura

GEIR B. ASHEIM University of Oslo, Norway CLAUDE D' ASPREMONT Center for Operations Research and Econometrics, Université de Louvain, Belgium KAUSIK BASU Cornell University, USA CHARLES BLACKORBY University of Warwick, UK WALTER BOSSERT Université de Montréal, Canada DAVID DONALDSON University of British Columbia, Canada MARC FLEURBAEY Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour, France TOSHIHIRO IHORI University of Tokyo, Japan TAPAN MITRA Cornell University, USA TOMOICHI SHINOTSUKA University of Tsukuba, Japan KOICHI SUGA Waseda University, Japan JOAQUIM SILVESTRE University of California at Davis, USA KOICHI TADENUMA Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University, Japan NORIYUKI TAKAYAMA Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University, Japan BERTIL TUNGODDEN Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration, Norway PETER VALLENTYNE University of Missouri at Columbia, USA NGO VAN LONG McGill University, Canada ROBERTO VENEZIANI Queen Mary College, University of London, UK YONGSHENG XU Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, University of Atlanta, USA NAOKI YOSHIHARA Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University, Japan

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