Utilitarianism and social discounting with countably many generations

DOI10.1016/J.JMATECO.2021.102576MaRDI QIDQ2075643zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Tangren Feng, Shaowei Ke, Andrew McMillan

Publication date 15 February 2022

Published in Journal of Mathematical Economics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmateco.2021.102576

zbMATH Keywords

utilitarianismsocial choicesocial discounting

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Social choice (91B14)

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