The formulation of the problem of justice among generations as the problem of finding an ordering of infinite utility streams is examined within the social welfare functional approach to social choice. This formulation usually presumes a double reduction, not only the classical welfarist...

We present a new version of the overtaking criterion, which we call generalized time-invariant overtaking. The generalized time-invariant overtaking criterion (on the space of infinite utility streams) is defined by extending proliferating sequences of complete and transitive binary relations...

This chapter reviews the SWFL approach to social choice. It does not attempt to be a complete and systematic survey of existing results, but to give a critical assesment of the main axioms and their role in filtering the ethically relevant information, in particular the measurability and...