Measuring Intergenerational Justice

Concern with intergenerational justice has long been a focus of economics. This essay considers the effort, over the last three decades, to quantify generational fiscal burdens using label-free fiscal gap and generational accounting. It also points out that government debt -- the conventional metric...

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Main Author: Laurence J. Kotlikoff
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Tübingen University 2017-12-01
Series:Intergenerational Justice Review
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Online Access:http://www.igjr.org/ojs/index.php/igjr/article/view/630