The optimal progressive income tax : The existence and the limit tax rates
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- Mamoru Kaneko, 1981. "The Optimal Progressive Income Tax -- The Existence and the Limit Tax Rates," Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers 599, Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University.
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