Aggregating Infinite Utility Streams with InterGenerational 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, intergenerational 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. Copyright The Econometric Society 2003.

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Year of publication:	2003
Authors:	Basu, Kaushik ; Mitra, Tapan
Published in:	Econometrica. - Econometric Society. - Vol. 71.2003, 5, p. 1557-1563
Publisher:	Econometric Society

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Type of publication:	Article
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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