Basu, Kaushik; Mitra, Tapan - In: Econometrica 71 (2003) 5, pp. 1557-1563
It has been known that, in aggregating infinite utility streams, there does not exist any social welfare function, which satisfies the axioms of Pareto, intergenerational equity, and continuity. We show that the impossibility result persists even without imposing the continuity axiom, and in...