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On Multi-Utility Representation of Equitable Intergenerational Preferences

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Econophysics and Economics of Games, Social Choices and Quantitative Techniques

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We investigate the possibility of representing ethical intergenerational preferences using more than one utility function. It is shown that the impossibility of representing intergenerational preferences equitably persists in the multi-utility frame work with some resonable restrictions on the cardinality of the set of utilities.

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  1. Barry Kaye Collage of Business, Department of Economics, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, USA

    Kuntal Banerjee

  2. Department of Economics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA

    Ram Sewak Dubey

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  1. Kuntal Banerjee
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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Physics and Applied Mathematics Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, 700108, India

    Banasri Basu

  2. Economic Research Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, 700108, India

    Satya R. Chakravarty , Bikas K. Chakrabarti  & Kausik Gangopadhyay ,  & 

  3. Centre for Applied Mathematics and Computational Science, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata, 700064, India

    Bikas K. Chakrabarti

  4. Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode, Kozhikode, 673570, India

    Kausik Gangopadhyay

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Banerjee, K., Dubey, R.S. (2010). On Multi-Utility Representation of Equitable Intergenerational Preferences. In: Basu, B., Chakravarty, S.R., Chakrabarti, B.K., Gangopadhyay, K. (eds) Econophysics and Economics of Games, Social Choices and Quantitative Techniques. New Economic Windows. Springer, Milano. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-1501-2_19

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