Intergenerational Justice

Economics and Philosophy Review from previous edition a comprehensive work that will be useful to all scholars with an interest in modern population ethics ... the book constitutes a very significant contribution to an overall topic which - due to the fact that it is both theoretically challenging and practically highly pertinent - seems destined to constitute a continuously expanding sub-field of ethics.


Antoine Verret-Hamelin, Recension DOuvrae a stimulating book ... the essays collected offer a high-quality analysis of the various problems underpinning intergenerational justice.

<br>Axel Gosseries is a Permanent Research Fellow at the Belgian Fund for Scientific Research (FRS), based at the Chaire Hoover d'ethique economique et sociale (Universit catholique de Louvain). He also lectures at the universities of Louvain and St-Louis (Brussels). <br>Lukas Meyer is Assistenzprofessor fur Praktische Philosophie at the University of Bern, Switzerland.<br>

Introduction: Intergenerational Justice and Its Challenges; PART I : THEORIES; 1. Identity and Obligation in a Transgenerational Polity; 2. Libertarian Theories of Intergenerational Justice; 3. A Contract on Future Generations?; 4. Three Models of Intergenerational Reciprocity; 5. Exploitation and Future Generations; 6. A Value or an Obligation? Rawls on Justice to Future Generations; 7. A Trans-Generational Difference Principle; 8. Enough for the Future; PART II : SPECIFIC ISSUES; 9. Wronging Future People; 10. What Motivates Us to Care for the (Distant) Future?; 11. Preference Formation and Intergenerational Justice; 12. Egalitarianism and Population Change; 13. Intergenerational Justice, Human Needs, and Climate Policy; 14. The Problem of a Perpetual Constitution