LEROUX, Marie - Louise; PONTHIERE, Grégory - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 2010
This paper re-examines a counterintuitive corollary of utilitarianism under unequal longevities: the tendency to redistribute resources from short-lived towards long-lived agents, against any intuition of compensation. It is shown that this corollary prevails not only under time-additive...