Intertemporally Consistent Population Ethics: Birth-Date Dependent Classical Principles.

This paper shows that, in a partially welfarist framework that permits discounting, per-period social evaluations can be consistent with a timeless social ordering only if social principles lead to the repugnant conclusion. The same result applies if per-period social evaluations are replaced by forward-looking evaluations (social orderings that, in a given period, depend on present and future utilities only).

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Year of publication:	1996
Authors:	Blackorby, C. ; Bossert, W. ; Donaldson, D.
Institutions:	Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille (GREQAM), Aix-Marseille School of Economics (AMSE)
Subject:	POPULATION \| WELFARE ECONOMICS

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Series:	G.R.E.Q.A.M..
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Notes:	27 pages
Classification:	D60 - Welfare Economics. General ; D63 - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement ; D70 - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making. General ; D71 - Social Choice; Clubs; Committees; Associations
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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