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Normative Approaches to the Issues of Global Warming: Responsibility and Compensation

In: Intergenerational Equity and Sustainability

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  • Kotaro Suzumura
  • Koichi Tadenuma

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The study of intergenerational equity may be broken down into four broad categories in accordance with the following two simple questions. The first is whether we are merely concerned with the equity issues among generations that are adjacent or overlapping along the time axis, or whether our concern about intergenerational equity is broad enough to cover even distant future generations (which we would never encounter in our own lifetimes). The second is related to informational bases of intergenerational equity. It asks what information is relevant to judgements of intergenerational equity, or whether we should assume that only utility or welfare information is relevant to equity judgements. Among the four categories identified by the combination of answers to these two simple questions, this chapter focuses on the analysis of equity among distant generations, without assuming that only utility or welfare information is relevant.

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  • Kotaro Suzumura & Koichi Tadenuma, 2007. "Normative Approaches to the Issues of Global Warming: Responsibility and Compensation," International Economic Association Series, in: John Roemer & Kotaro Suzumura (ed.), Intergenerational Equity and Sustainability, chapter 16, pages 320-336, Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Handle: RePEc:pal:intecp:978-0-230-23676-9_16
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230236769_16
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    1. Toshiaki Hiromitsu, 2019. "Consideration of keys to solving problems in long-term fiscal policy through laboratory research," International Journal of Economic Policy Studies, Springer, vol. 13(1), pages 147-172, January.
    2. Sakamoto, Norihito & 坂本, 徳仁, 2011. "Impossibilities of Paretian Social Welfare Functions for Infinite Utility Streams with Distributive Equity," Discussion Papers 2011-09, Graduate School of Economics, Hitotsubashi University.

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