In modern political philosophy social contract theory is the most prominent approach to individual rights and fair institutions. According to social contract theory the system of rights in a society ought to be justified by reconstructing its basic features as a contract between the mutually...

This paper addresses the problem of intergenerational and intragenerational distribution in a pay-as-you-go pension system. While each generation pays the pensions of the preceding generation, they also bear the burden of raising the next. The burden of child care is unevenly distributed within...