Jonsson, Adam; Voorneveld, Mark - In: Theoretical Economics 13 (2018) 1, pp. 19-37
This paper presents an infinite-horizon version of intergenerational utilitarianism. By studying discounted utilitarianism as the discount factor tends to one, we obtain a new welfare criterion: limit-discounted utilitarianism (LDU). We show that LDU meets the standard assumptions of efficiency,...