The ethics of intergenerational risk

DOI10.1016/J.JET.2020.104999MaRDI QIDQ2295834zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Paolo G. Piacquadio

Publication date 17 February 2020

Published in Journal of Economic Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jet.2020.104999

zbMATH Keywords

discountinggradual resolution of riskintergenerational justicewelfare criteria

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Social choice (91B14) Welfare economics (91B15)

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• Can preferences for catastrophe avoidance reconcile social discounting with intergenerational equity?

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