Paretian evaluation of infinite utility streams: An egalitarian criterion

José Alcantud () and María D. García-Sanz

Economics Letters, 2010, vol. 106, issue 3, 209-211

Abstract: We prove that Partial Pareto social welfare functions that verify Restricted Non-Substitution and Anonymity exist, and that there are explicit expressions of Strongly Paretian social welfare functions with Restricted Non-Substitution, when each generation's utilities lie in  [union or logical sum] {0}.

Keywords: Social; welfare; function; Equity; Pareto; axiom; Intergenerational; utility (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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