Intergenerational equity and sustainability

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
List of Figures......Page 8
The International Economic Association......Page 9
Acknowledgements......Page 11
List of Contributors......Page 12
List of Abbreviations and Acronyms......Page 13
Introduction......Page 15
Part I: Equity Among Overlapping Generations......Page 24
1 Pension Contributions and Capital Accumulation......Page 26
2 Equity and Efficiency in Overlapping Generations Economies......Page 43
3 Social Security Pensions and Intergenerational Equity: The Japanese Case......Page 59
Part II: Ranking Infinite Utility Streams......Page 76
4 A New Equity Condition for Infinite Utility Streams and the Possibility of Being Paretian......Page 78
5 Possibility Theorems for Equitably Aggregating Infinite Utility Streams......Page 92
6 On the Existence of Paretian Social Welfare Quasi-orderings for Infinite Utility Streams with Extended Anonymity......Page 108
7 Pareto Principle and Intergenerational Equity: Immediate Impatience, Universal Indifference and Impossibility......Page 123
Part III: Intergenerational Evaluations......Page 134
8 Formal Welfarism and Intergenerational Equity......Page 136
9 Intertemporal Social Evaluation......Page 154
10 Intergenerational Fairness......Page 178
11 Person-Affecting Paretian Egalitarianism with Variable Population Size......Page 199
Part IV: Sustainability and Human Development......Page 224
12 Intergenerational Justice and Sustainability Under the Leximin Ethic......Page 226
13 Intergenerational Justice, International Relations and Sustainability......Page 251
14 Intergenerational Equity and Human Development......Page 275
Part V: Long-Run Issues of Intergenerational Equity......Page 312
15 Toward a Just Savings Principle......Page 314
16 Normative Approaches to the Issues of Global Warming: Responsibility and Compensation......Page 343
17 Fundamental Incompatibility between Economic Efficiency, Intergenerational Equity and Sustainability......Page 360
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