intergenerational equity Concepts

Good Times, Bad Times: The Welfare Myth of Them and Us

by John Hills · 6 Nov 2014 · 352pp · 107,280 words

they are accumulating are usually of a much less valuable kind.16 It is hardly surprising, then, that these differences are highlighted in debates about ‘intergenerational equity’. Books such as (former Minister for Higher Education) David Willetts’ The pinch: How the baby-boomers took their children’s future – and why they should

A Generation of Sociopaths: How the Baby Boomers Betrayed America

by Bruce Cannon Gibney · 7 Mar 2017 · 526pp · 160,601 words

generations helps explain why the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) ranked the United States dead last among peers in a 2013 survey of “intergenerational equity.”9 The United States, an “outlier” among developed nations, had an “exceedingly high” rate of child poverty (21 percent), compared to Northern Europe (4–7

Capitalism 3.0: A Guide to Reclaiming the Commons

by Peter Barnes · 29 Sep 2006 · 207pp · 52,716 words

. If numerical precision isn’t possible, use orders of magnitude. See what happens to GDP and the commons side of the ledger, to intra- and intergenerational equity, and to nature. Then report your findings to the world. If you’re not a modeler, work on institutional design. How should trusts be structured

Extreme Economies: Survival, Failure, Future – Lessons From the World’s Limits

by Richard Davies · 4 Sep 2019 · 412pp · 128,042 words

). For the impact of Confucian concepts on economic outcomes – for example, corporation organization – see Nakane (1970) and Kumagai (1992). Intergenerational inequality A recent review of intergenerational equity is given by Motoshige (2013). An early paper on the risk pension reforms posed to Japanese notions of solidarity is Takahashi (2004). On government programmes

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Shortage Beginning to Erode the Quality of Services: Hidden Inflation’ (Toyko: Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry). Motoshige, I. (ed.) (2013), Public Pensions and Intergenerational Equity, NIRA Policy Review No. 59 (Tokyo: National Institute for Research Advancement (NIRA)). Moyle, W., et al. (2017), ‘Use of a Robotic Seal as a Therapeutic

The Irrational Economist: Making Decisions in a Dangerous World

by Erwann Michel-Kerjan and Paul Slovic · 5 Jan 2010 · 411pp · 108,119 words

, complexity, and large delays between action and outcome). How to shape, inform, and represent individual preferences in this context remains a largely open question. 3. Intergenerational equity, irreversibility, and intertemporal choice: Legitimation problems are particularly difficult in these areas because it is impossible to bring all the affected parties into the decision

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context at the time policy choices are made. The special problems of intergenerational equity (meaning all the future generations who will be affected by our actions today but who are not yet born) and irreversibility have been at the

The Health Gap: The Challenge of an Unequal World

by Michael Marmot · 9 Sep 2015 · 414pp · 119,116 words

of income inequality is not just inequitable for the present adult population, it diminishes life chances for the next generation – it diminishes equity between generations (intergenerational equity). FIGURE 4.5: INEQUALITY IS NOT JUST BAD FOR MUM AND DAD The term ‘intergenerational earnings elasticity’ plots the resemblance between the earnings of parents

Green Swans: The Coming Boom in Regenerative Capitalism

by John Elkington · 6 Apr 2020 · 384pp · 93,754 words

we dig into the relationships between capitalism and democracy, the more sustainability looks like the natural bridge between the two, focusing as it does on intergenerational equity and balanced, inclusive, and environmentally sustainable value creation and distribution over extended timescales. My decision to attempt the recall, even as a kōan, stemmed from

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the process, they will need very different perspectives on Horizons 2 and 3, with an emphasis on resilience, regeneration, and, the very essence of sustainability, intergenerational equity. They will need new icons, models, and gurus. One I have long admired in the regeneration space, and who also spoke at our first Green

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comment about the last generation able to do very much about the state of our planet. The heart of the sustainability agenda has always been intergenerational equity.20 Indeed, much of my own work has been driven by a growing sense that we need stronger, longer, and wider bridges across our generational

The End of Doom: Environmental Renewal in the Twenty-First Century

by Ronald Bailey · 20 Jul 2015 · 417pp · 109,367 words

. Agricultural subsidies clearly encourage farmers to overuse fertilizer, which in turn produces nitrous oxide emissions that harm the ozone layer and raise global temperature. Real Intergenerational Equity Comedian Groucho Marx once famously quipped, “Why should I do anything for posterity? What has posterity ever done for me?” Many people are worried about

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“intergenerational equity” with regard to how global warming will affect future generations. But perhaps Marx had the right question. Consider that University of Groningen economist Angus Maddison

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Maddison’s figures. In other words, contemporary Europeans and Americans are around seven times richer than their great-grandparents were three generations ago. The true intergenerational equity question becomes: How much would you have demanded that your much poorer ancestors give up in order to prevent the climate change we are now

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capture and storage by carbon tax by carbon trade costs and benefits economic growth and emergency backup plan for energy consensus and geoengineering innovation for intergenerational equity and by marine cloud whitening negotiations failed negotiations future negotiations promised by nuclear power overview by renewable energy by subsidies cuts by sulfur emissions climate

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benefits overview climate adaptation and climate mitigation and commodity super-cycles and consumption decline and elitist resistance to fertility rate decline and free-market capitalism intergenerational equity and modern resource efficiency in pollution correlation to societal collapse and sustainable development and trial and error for Eco-Scam (Bailey) ecosystems, novel EDCs. See

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International Energy Agency IIASA. See International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis Iler, Stuart income increase climate adaptation and climate mitigation and fertility rate decline and intergenerational equity and open-access social orders and trend overview India biotech crops in climate change negotiations with farmer suicide in fertility rate and life expectancy in

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DDT electric vehicle energy, clean energy efficiency food production Green Revolution lasers metal nanotechnology nuclear power oil pharmaceutical resource efficiency solar power insulin Intellectual Ventures intergenerational equity Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on climate adaptation on climate mitigation on extinction on natural disasters on natural gas efficiency on ocean acidification on

The Climate Book: The Facts and the Solutions

by Greta Thunberg · 14 Feb 2023 · 651pp · 162,060 words

have done in the situation and what the impact of a decision for the seven upcoming ones will be. It’s a way to put intergenerational equity at the core of every important decision. Now the time has come for the global community to listen to my people, and to help them

Net Zero: How We Stop Causing Climate Change

by Dieter Helm · 2 Sep 2020 · 304pp · 90,084 words

beat climate change do not arise; and not to enforce net gain means an economy where excess damage happens. A sustainable economy has to meet intergenerational equity too.[4] It is not just pollution now that counts against efficiency, but also pollution dumped on the next generation. To address this generational point

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the pollution we are causing now and that we have already caused, and the debts to pay for clearing it up. This hardly fits with intergenerational equity, and it looks worryingly as if the current older generation of polluters is going to get away with it. The honest activists are right: the

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, 206, 211, 215, 221, 228–9, 231 DONG 69 Drax 147, 151, 154, 218 economy, net zero 10–12, 81–159 delivering a 96–103 intergenerational equity and 96–7 markets and 103–5 net environmental gain see net environmental gain political ideologies and 98–101 polluter-pays principle see polluter-pays