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.

Autorentext
GEIR B. ASHEIM University of Oslo, Norway CLAUDE D' ASPREMONT Center for Operations Research and Econometrics, Université de Louvain, Belgium KAUSIK BASU Cornell University, USA CHARLES BLACKORBY University of Warwick, UK WALTER BOSSERT Université de Montréal, Canada DAVID DONALDSON University of British Columbia, Canada MARC FLEURBAEY Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour, France TOSHIHIRO IHORI University of Tokyo, Japan TAPAN MITRA Cornell University, USA TOMOICHI SHINOTSUKA University of Tsukuba, Japan KOICHI SUGA Waseda University, Japan JOAQUIM SILVESTRE University of California at Davis, USA KOICHI TADENUMA Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University, Japan NORIYUKI TAKAYAMA Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University, Japan BERTIL TUNGODDEN Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration, Norway PETER VALLENTYNE University of Missouri at Columbia, USA NGO VAN LONG McGill University, Canada ROBERTO VENEZIANI Queen Mary College, University of London, UK YONGSHENG XU Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, University of Atlanta, USA NAOKI YOSHIHARA Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University, Japan

Inhalt
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