Intergenerational Equity and Sustainability

Front Matter....Pages i-xxii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Pension Contributions and Capital Accumulation....Pages 3-19
Equity and Efficiency in Overlapping Generations Economies....Pages 20-35
Social Security Pensions and Intergenerational Equity: The Japanese Case....Pages 36-52
Front Matter....Pages 53-53
A New Equity Condition for Infinite Utility Streams and the Possibility of being Paretian....Pages 55-68
Possibility Theorems for Equitably Aggregating Infinite Utility Streams....Pages 69-84
On the Existence of Paretian Social Welfare Quasi-Orderings for Infinite Utility Streams with Extended Anonymity....Pages 85-99
Pareto Principle and Intergenerational Equity: Immediate Impatience, Universal Indifference and Impossibility....Pages 100-109
Front Matter....Pages 111-111
Formal Welfarism and Intergenerational Equity....Pages 113-130
Intertemporal Social Evaluation....Pages 131-154
Intergenerational Fairness....Pages 155-175
Person-Affecting Paretian Egalitarianism with Variable Population Size....Pages 176-200
Front Matter....Pages 201-201
Intergenerational Justice and Sustainability Under the Leximin Ethic....Pages 203-227
Intergenerational Justice, International Relations and Sustainability....Pages 228-251
Intergenerational Equity and Human Development....Pages 252-287
Front Matter....Pages 289-289
Toward a Theory of a Just Savings Principle....Pages 291-319
Normative Approaches to the Issues of Global Warming: Responsibility and Compensation....Pages 320-336
Fundamental Incompatibility between Economic Efficiency, Intergenerational Equity and Sustainability....Pages 337-357
Back Matter....Pages 358-368