Discounting, beyond Utilitarianism

Economics

Volumn 9, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Fleurbaey, Marc ^a   Zuber, Stéphane ^b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Discounted utilitarianism; Social discounting

Indexed keywords

EID: 84927609342     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18646042     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5018/economics-ejournal.ja.2015-12     Document Type: Article

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