Piacquadio, Paolo Giovanni - 2014 - This version December 28, 2013
I study the egalitarian way of distributing resources across generations. Distributional equity deeply conflicts with … generation with same preferences. Overcoming such tension unveils a new ethical dilemma for intergenerational equity: the short …-term/long-term inequality trade-off. The egalitarian ethical observer can choose between: i) "weak equity" among all generations (at the cost of …