Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/155556 
Year of Publication: 
2017
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 6314
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
Evaluating the sustainability of a society requires a system of shadow or accounting values derived from the sustainability objective. As a first step toward the derivation of such shadow values for a maximin objective, this paper studies an economy composed of two reproducible assets, each producing one of two consumption goods. The effect of the substitutability between goods in utility is studied by postulating, in turn, neoclassical diminishing marginal substitutability, perfect substitutability and perfect complementarity. The degree of substitutability has strong effects on the maximin solution, affecting the regularity or non-regularity of the program, and on the accounting values. This has important consequences for the computation of genuine savings and the sustainability prospects of future generations.
Subjects: 
sustainable development
maximin
sustainability accounting
substitutability
JEL: 
O44
Q56
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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