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Future-blindness and the product topology

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  • Marcel Andrade
  • Lorenzo Bastianello
  • Jaime Orrillo

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We study future-blind preferences, which are preferences that heavily discount the future, within the space of infinite consumption streams. We give two definitions: $N$-blindness, where agents ignore periods beyond a fixed date $N$, and eventual blindness, where all but finitely many dates are neglected. Using a topological approach, we show that the finest topology ensuring eventual blindness coincides with the product topology. This provides a behavioral foundation for continuity in the product topology, which was considered for studying equilibrium existence in infinite-dimensional spaces. Finally, we characterize the dual spaces under these topologies.

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  • Marcel Andrade & Lorenzo Bastianello & Jaime Orrillo, 2026. "Future-blindness and the product topology," Papers 2602.06672, arXiv.org.
  • Handle: RePEc:arx:papers:2602.06672
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