Aggregating Infinite Utility Streams with InterGenerational Equity: The Impossibility of Being Paretian

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DOI10.1111/1468-0262.00458zbMath1153.91648OpenAlexW2113742563MaRDI QIDQ5472996

Tapan Mitra, Kaushik Basu

Publication date: 19 June 2006

Published in: Econometrica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://cae.economics.cornell.edu/BM23Feb2003.pdf




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