Event Information
The first EEU Seminar after the summer break will be held on Monday the 9th of September at 12:10 – 13:15 in B44.
The seminar will be held by Frikk Nesje and he will be presenting on the topic of: Intergenerational Discounting and Inequality.
When: Monday, September 9th at 12:10-13:15
Where: B44
Speaker: Frikk Nesje
Title: Intergenerational Discounting and Inequality
Abstract: We study all theories of justice that disentangle ethical views on intergenerational discounting and intergenerational inequality. Each “modular” social welfare function is uniquely identified by a time-discounting function--capturing attitudes toward time--and an aggregator function--capturing attitudes toward inequality. The rich choice of such functions allows our theories to include the most common welfare criteria adopted in the literature as special cases, and uncovers unexplored families of alternative criteria. Our axiomatic characterization identifies the properties and establishes the limits of disentangling discounting and inequality.
Hope to see you there,
Albert Wallgren