utilitarianism (DU). DU is controversial, both due to the conditions through which it is justified and due to its consequences for … measures to justify their present costs. In this paper, we propose sustainable discounted utilitarianism (SDU) as an … alternative principle for evaluation of climate policy. Unlike undiscounted utilitarianism, which always assigns zero relative …

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, a generalized criterion is …