(intergenerational equity), using a common framework generalizing the discounted expected utilitarianism approach. We propose a general …

This paper presents an infinite-horizon version of intergenerational utilitarianism that is both satisfactorily … complete and consistent. By studying discounted utilitarianism as the discount factor tends to one, we obtain a welfare … criterion --- limit-discounted utilitarianism --- that combines efficiency and the equal treatment of generations with …