We describe a new approach to the problem of resolving distributional conflicts between an infinite and countable number of generations. We impose conditions on the social preferences that capture the following idea: If preference (or indifference) holds between truncated paths for infinitely...

This paper examines how to satisfy “independence of the utilities of the dead” (Blackorby et al. in Econometrica 63:1303–1320, <CitationRef CitationID="CR4">1995</CitationRef>; Bommier and Zuber in Soc Choice Welf 31:415–434, <CitationRef CitationID="CR5">2008</CitationRef>) in the class of “expected equally distributed equivalent” social orderings (Fleurbaey in J Polit...</citationref></citationref>