Intergenerational Equity and Sustainability

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

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349283444
• ISBN13: 9781349283446
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"