- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- List of Figures and Tables
- List of Contributors
- 1 Designing Institutions for Future Generations
- 2 Institutional Design and Sources of Short-Termism
- 3 Intergenerational Justice
- 4 Measuring Intergenerational Fairness
- 5 Can we Represent Future Generations?
- 6 Generational Sovereignty
- 7 An Ombudsman for Future Generations
- 8 Political Institutions for the Future
- 9 A World Climate Bank
- 10 Constitutionalizing Intergenerational Provisions
- 11 Democratic Trusteeship
- 12 A Common Heritage Fund for Future Generations
- 13 Electoral Design, Sub-Majority Rules, and Representation for Future Generations
- 14 Philanthropy and Intergenerational Justice
- 15 The Deliberative Democratic Inclusion of Future Generations
- 16 Youth Quotas, Diversity, and Long-Termism
- 17 A General-Purpose, Randomly Selected Chamber
- 18 Piloting Responsibility and Intergenerational Justice
- 19 The People’s Endowment
- 20 Democratic Firms
- 21 Archiving for the Future
- 22 Alumni Involvement and Long-Termist University Governance
- 23 Pension Funds, Future Generations, and Fiduciary Duty
- 24 Family Planning is Not (Necessarily) the Priority Institution for Reducing Fertility
- Index
Measuring Intergenerational Fairness
Measuring Intergenerational Fairness
- Chapter:
- (p.65) 4 Measuring Intergenerational Fairness
- Source:
- Institutions For Future Generations
- Author(s):
Stephane Zuber
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
Measures of intergenerational fairness are needed to design institutions promoting the interests of future generations and to evaluate their performance. This chapter discusses methods to compare generations in order to assess whether the intergenerational distribution of some relevant metric is fair. In particular, it examines the role of social discounting, and methods such as generational accounting or cohortal analysis. Other approaches focus directly on whether present generations are complying with their duty towards future generations by assessing the level of (a comprehensive measure of) aggregate savings. The chapter discusses such measures, in particular in relation to the question of sustainability. It compares two specific approaches, namely the ecological footprint and genuine savings.
Keywords: intergenerational fairness, sustainability, discounting, generational accounting, cohortal analysis, ecological footprint, genuine savings
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- List of Figures and Tables
- List of Contributors
- 1 Designing Institutions for Future Generations
- 2 Institutional Design and Sources of Short-Termism
- 3 Intergenerational Justice
- 4 Measuring Intergenerational Fairness
- 5 Can we Represent Future Generations?
- 6 Generational Sovereignty
- 7 An Ombudsman for Future Generations
- 8 Political Institutions for the Future
- 9 A World Climate Bank
- 10 Constitutionalizing Intergenerational Provisions
- 11 Democratic Trusteeship
- 12 A Common Heritage Fund for Future Generations
- 13 Electoral Design, Sub-Majority Rules, and Representation for Future Generations
- 14 Philanthropy and Intergenerational Justice
- 15 The Deliberative Democratic Inclusion of Future Generations
- 16 Youth Quotas, Diversity, and Long-Termism
- 17 A General-Purpose, Randomly Selected Chamber
- 18 Piloting Responsibility and Intergenerational Justice
- 19 The People’s Endowment
- 20 Democratic Firms
- 21 Archiving for the Future
- 22 Alumni Involvement and Long-Termist University Governance
- 23 Pension Funds, Future Generations, and Fiduciary Duty
- 24 Family Planning is Not (Necessarily) the Priority Institution for Reducing Fertility
- Index
