Indeed, Glover risks creating a conflict between generations where none exists.
This is a conflict between generations, expressing the desire of the children to determine their own place and orientation in existence against the passivity of the parents.
But the Daily Telegraph in an article about the paper headed 'Cuts create anger between the ages' summed it up nicely: Spending cuts threaten to create conflict between generations as the middle-aged are forced to bear the cost of caring for children and the elderly, according to social policy experts.
Besides the ambiguity in its welfare economics foundation, this utility integral analysis may lack the ability to deal with the conflict between generations easily.
Since Theorem 2 implies that U ¯ * = u c * U ¯ *, e * U ¯ *, U ¯ * ≡ arg max U ¯ u c * U ¯, e * U ¯, (24). in principle, there is no conflict between generations regarding the optimal carbon taxation.
With limited jobs and the society falling into the low growth stage, conflicts between older generation and younger generation intensified.
In Wagner ([1998]), Jones and Manuelli ([2001]), and Ono ([2005]), a conflict exists between generations.
19th-century philosopher of science Auguste Comte suggested that "social change was determined by generational change and in particular by conflict between successive generations".
One of the many consequences of the massive public spending cuts could well be growing conflict between the generations in the battle to protect frontline services.
With the benefit of hindsight, though, there is another reason why Fathers and Sons offers an appropriate launch pad into the study of Russia: its theme is that of ideological conflict between the generations.
