Intertemporally Consistent Population Ethics: Birth-Date Dependent Classical Principles

Charles Blackorby, Walter Bossert and David Donaldson

G.R.E.Q.A.M. from Universite Aix-Marseille III

Abstract: 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).

Keywords: POPULATION; WELFARE ECONOMICS (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D60 D63 D70 D71 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 27 pages
Date: 1996
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