“According to the Western science you value so highly, timeitself eventually comes to an end,” said my friend Chris“Breathe” Frue, a talented musician and audio technicianwho wants to learn more about ...

Recent work on collective intertemporal choice suggests that non-dictatorial social preferences are generically time inconsistent. We argue that this claim conflates time consistency with two distinct ...

We study collective choice when individuals have heterogeneous discounted utilitarian preferences. Two attractive properties of intertemporal preferences are indistinguishable for individuals, but ...