Miyagishima, Kaname - In: Theoretical Economics 18 (2023) 3, pp. 941-964
conflict between the axioms of Pareto principle, time consistency, and equity requiring society to reduce inequality regardless … of the past. We argue that responsibility for past choices should be taken into account and thus the equity axiom is not … compelling. Then, we introduce another form of equity that takes the past into consideration and is compatible with time …