The American political system is gridlocked and its democratic norms are shaken. In the second of two articles for IF’s Worldwide Blog Week on renewing the legal and political institutions of the United States, Julia M. Puaschunder, an economist and psychologist at Inter-University Consortium of New York, considers the history of the lottery system in… Read more »
Intergenerational Equity and the US Judiciary
Intergenerational equity concerns have grown significantly over recent decades, and our political and legal systems are skewed in ways which can exacerbate and intensify these issues. Julia M. Puaschunder, an economist and psychologist at the Inter-University Consortium of New York, discusses intergenerational fairness in the US Judiciary with attention to age-balanced decision-making. Intergenerational inequality on… Read more »
Net Zero: are we unfairly “discounting” the future?
Bill Anderson-Samways is a former researcher at the Social Market Foundation. He recently co-authored a report on how to pay for the transition to Net Zero, On Borrowed Time, with John Hobby, a researcher at the Intergenerational Foundation. In this blog, he argues that the UK’s high discount rate pushes the costs of Net Zero… Read more »
Thoughts on our Obligations to Future Generations: the links between us
Ernest-Marie Mbonda is Professor of Ethics and Political Philosophy at the Universtié des Montagnes (Cameroon), Catholic University of Central Africa (Cameroon) and Université de Moncton (Canada). In this blog, he writes about the rights of future generations. This blog was originally written in French and has been translated by the IF team. You can read… Read more »
Penser Nos Obligations À L’égard Des Générations Futures: Les Liens Entre Nous et nos arrières petits-fils
Ernest-Marie Mbonda est Professeur d’éthique à l’Université des Montagnes (Cameroun), à l’Université catholique d’Afrique centrale (Cameroun) et à l’Université de Moncton (Canada). Dans ce blog, il propose quelques réflexions sur les obligations envers les générations futures. Vous pouvez lire ce blog en Anglais ici. Deux problèmes Le thème des obligations à l’égard des générations futures… Read more »
What an election in Ontario tells us about housing, voter dissolution and intergenerational fairness
Umair Muhammad is the Knowledge to Action Lead at Generation Squeeze, a Canadian organisation dedicated to promoting the rights and wellbeing of younger generations. In this blog, he sets out the lessons to be learned from recent elections in the province of Ontario. The wrong sort of record On 2 June, a record-setting election took… Read more »
Jaded ‘Jeunesse’: abstention, protest and the generation gap in French politics
Sarah Pickard is a Senior Lecturer at the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris and is the author of Politics, Protest and Young People. In this blog, she assesses the role of young people in French politics, especially during the presidential and legislative elections earlier this year. Voting and protest Young people’s political participation has been… Read more »
Abolishing stamp duty can help us achieve intergenerational equity
In this contribution to IF’s Worldwide Blog Week 2022, Andrew Dixon, Founder of Fairer Share, a UK-based property taxation campaign group, explains how abolishing stamp duty can make society fairer for younger generations. Growing gerontocracy The basis of our society, as well as many foundational economic models, is that people will tend to vote in… Read more »
The search for nuclear waste repository sites: an incredibly momentous decision
Jörg Tremmel is a Co-founder of Germany’s Foundation for the Rights of Future Generations. Milena Weber is a student of Global Environmental and Sustainability Science and Political Science at Leuphana University in Lüneburg, while also working for FRFG. In this joint piece, they look at how the German government is approaching the storage of nuclear… Read more »
When the old suffer too: the cycle of intergenerational inequality
Danny Dorling is the Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography of the School of Geography and the Environment of the University of Oxford, and the author of many books including All That Is Solid, Inequality and the 1%, and Injustice: why social inequality persists. In this blog, he explains how inequality between older and younger generations… Read more »