Pigou and future generations: a Cambridge tradition
探讨庇古关于代际公平的观点，认为后代应与当代人平等对待，并指出当代投资不足，尤其是人力资本投资，强调国家在代际正义中的重要作用。
In The Economics of Welfare and elsewhere, A. C. Pigou took the view that future people should be treated equally with present people. He stressed our defective telescopic faculty, mortality, and weak linkages over time and argued that the present generation would consequently devote too few resources to investment, particularly in human capital. Pigou linked his argument with the then contemporary controversies about natural resource conservation and about eugenics. This 'Cambridge tradition' holds that issues of generational justice leave an important role for the state and cannot be resolved simply at the level of the individual or the family. (c) 1996 Academic Press Limited Copyright 1996 by Oxford University Press.