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Intergenerational equity and sustainability

edited by John Roemer and Kotaro Suzumura

(International Economic Association conference volume, no. 143)

Palgrave Macmillan, 2007

  • : cloth

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Papers presented at the International Economic Association Roundtable Meeting on Intergenerational Equity on March 10-12, 2005 in Hakone, Japan

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

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.

Table of Contents

  • Introduction
  • J.Roemer & K.Suzumura PART 1: EQUITY AMONG OVERLAPPING GENERATIONS Pension Contributions and Capital Accumulation
  • T.Ihori Equity and Efficiency in Overlapping Generations Economies
  • T.Shinotsuka, K.Suga, K.Suzumura & K.Tadenuma Social Security Pensions and Interregional Equity: The Japanese Case
  • N.Takayama PART 2: RANKING INFINITE UTILITY STREAMS A New Equity Condition for Infinite Utility Streams and the Possibility of Being Paretian
  • G.B.Asheim, T.Mitra & B.Tungodden Possibility Theorems for Equitably Aggregating Infinite Utility Systems
  • K.Basu & T.Mitra On the Existence of Paretian Social Welfare Quasi-orderings for Infinite Utility Streams with Extended Anonymity
  • T.Mitra & K.Basu Pareto Principle and Intergenerational Equity: Immediate Impatience, Universal Indifference and Impossibility
  • Y.Xu PART 3: INTERGENERATIONAL EVALUATIONS Formal Welfarism and Intergenerational Equity
  • C.d'Aspremont Intertemporal Social Evaluation
  • C.Blackorby, W.Bossert & D.Donaldson Intergenerational Fairness
  • M.Fleurbaey Person-Affecting Paretian Egaliterianism with Variable Population Size
  • B.Tungodden & P.Vallentyne PART 4: SUSTAINABILITY AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT Intergenerational Justice and Sustainability under the Leximin Ethic
  • J.Roemer Intergenerational Justice, International Relations, and Sustainability
  • J.Roemer & R.Veneziani Intergenerational Equity and Human Development
  • J.Silvestre PART 5: LONG-RUN ISSUES OF INTERGENERATIONAL EQUITY Toward a Just Savings Principle
  • N.Van Long Normative Approaches to the Issues of Global Warming: Responsibility and Compensation
  • K.Suzumura & K.Tadenuma Fundamental Incompatibility Between Economic Efficiency, Intergenerational Equity and Sustainability
  • N.Yoshihara Index

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