Equity, Incentives, and Taxation

Redistribution is one of the most fundamental issues in welfare economics. In connection with this term the following questions directly arise: What is a good redistribution ? Which (governmental) instruments should be used to attain it ? Is there a "best instrument" if several of them are...

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Main Author: Tillmann, Georg
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 1989, 1989
Edition:1st ed. 1989
Series:Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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505 0 |a I Fairness and production -- 1.1 The model -- 1.2 Finite economies -- 1.3 Continuum economies -- 1.4 Income tax implementability -- 1.5 Proofs -- II Redistribution, observability and different tax systems -- 2.1 The model and first definitions -- 2.2 Finite economies -- 2.3 Continuum economies -- 2.4 Proofs -- III Taxation as insurance -- 3.1 The model -- 3.2 First and second best solutions -- 3.3 Remarks -- 3.4 Proofs -- Appendix: The deterministic versus the stochastic model -- Final Remarks -- References 
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520 |a Redistribution is one of the most fundamental issues in welfare economics. In connection with this term the following questions directly arise: What is a good redistribution ? Which (governmental) instruments should be used to attain it ? Is there a "best instrument" if several of them are available? Or, to express it more generally, which allocations are at all attainable if special instruments are at hand ? All these questions are formulated in an extremely vague way. It will be the task of the following work to make these questions precise and to give answers - as far as possible. It is a matter of course that these answers will not be exhaustive because redistribution is too wide a field. I have used the word "instrument" intentionally. In doing so, Iwanted to indicate that it is not necessary to restrict oneself to income - or commodity taxes as is common place in public finance when aiming at redistribution