The Malleability of Undiscounted Utilitarianism as a Criterion of Intergenerational Justice
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9720831 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Geir B Asheim (0000-0003-0669-4632, University of Oslo), Wolfgang Buchholz (University of Regensburg) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 70 |
| Issue | 279 |
| Pages | 405-422 |
| Publication date | 2003-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Economica (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-0427 • E-ISSN: 1468-0335 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1468-0335.t01-1-00290 |
| OpenAlex | W1998627858 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 30 |
Discounting future utilities is often justified by the ethically motivated objective of protecting earlier generations from the excessive saving that seems to be implied by undiscounted utilitarianism in productive economies. We question this justification of discounting by showing that undiscounted utilitarianism has sufficient malleability within important classes of technologies: any efficient and non‐decreasing allocation can be the unique optimum according to an undiscounted utilitarian criterion for some choice of utility function
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| Citations per year | 0,21 |
| Citation span | 2007 - 2023 (17) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |