Aggregating Infinite Utility Streams with Inter-generational Equity: The Impossibility of Being Paretian

It has been known that, in aggregating infinite utility streams, there does not exist any social welfare function, which satisfies the axioms of Pareto, inter-generational equity and continuity. We show that the impossibility result persists even without imposing the continuity axiom, and in frameworks allowing for more general domains of utilities than those used in the existing literature.

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Year of publication:	2003-02
Authors:	Basu, Kaushik ; Mitra, Tapan
Institutions:	Center for Analytic Economics, Department of Economics

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Series:	Working Papers.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Classification:	D00 - Microeconomics. General ; D70 - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making. General ; D90 - Intertemporal Choice and Growth. General
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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