Rawlsian equity and generalised utilitarianism with an infinite population

Lauwers, Luc

doi:10.1007/s001990050115

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“…Finally, as illustrated by Rezai et al (2010), in some cases, such policies may benefit all generations, and thus do not represent a question of intergenerational justice. 2 For an alternative set of axioms leading to discounted utilitarianism, see Lauwers (1997). positive discount rate undermines the well-being of generations in far future, even if sustainable streams with non-decreasing well-being are feasible.…”

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Sustainable recursive social welfare functions

2010

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What ethical criterion for intergenerational justice should be adopted, e.g., when faced with the task of managing the global environment? Koopmans' axiomatization of discounted utilitarianism is based on seemingly compelling conditions, yet this criterion leads to hard-to-justify outcomes. The present analysis considers a class of sustainable recursive social welfare functions within Koopmans' general framework. This class is axiomatized by means of a weak equity condition ("Hammond Equity for the Future") and general existence is established. Any member of the class

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Sustainable recursive social welfare functions

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“…Lauwers [15] axiomatizes the in…mum rule using axioms very closely related to ours. He works in a completely ordinal framework; however.…”

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“…We refer to it as ordinal covariance. A variant of this axiom has been studied in this context before; see Lauwers [15]. It …nds a role in social choice theory in general, see for example [2,11,13,20,21];…”

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Intergenerational equity: sup, inf, lim sup, and lim inf

Chambers

2008

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“…Finally, as illustrated by Rezai et al (2016), in some cases, such policies may benefit all generations, and thus do not represent a question of intergenerational justice. 2 For an alternative set of axioms leading to discounted utilitarianism, see Lauwers (1997). erations cannot lead to a less desirable stream of well-being if the present remains better-off than the future even after the sacrifice. 3 In Sect.…”

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