Resumen de On the Impossibility of Representing Infinite Utility Streams

Juan A. Crespo Fernández, Carmelo Núñez Sanz, Juan Pablo Rincón Zapatero

• We show that, independently of the topology chosen on the set of all infinity utility streams, there is no Social Welfare Function preserving the von Weizsäcker¿s overtaking criterion. With our proof we extend the impossibility result of Basu and Mitra.