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Efficiency, Equity And Democracy: Experimental Evidence On Okun’S Leaky Bucket

In: Inequality, Welfare and Income Distribution: Experimental Approaches

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  • Steven R Beckman
  • John P Formby
  • W James Smith

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Income redistribution and its consequences have been the subject of intense debate over the last three decades. This is nowhere better evidenced than in the motivations which are variously ascribed to such redistributions. The social welfare approach, for example, starts from the premise that redistribution of income from the rich to the poor enhances social welfare, a fact from which redistribution derives its motivation. In contrastTullock (1983, p. 2)argues that the major impetus for income redistribution is simply that the beneficiaries of transfer programs want larger incomes and greater wealth and have the political power to realize their goals.Buchanan (1984, p. 187)finds a constitutional basis for redistribution arguing that, if the voting franchise is universal and the constitution allows collective decisions concerning income transfers, then the basic property right to income in a society inheres in the voting franchise.

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  • Steven R Beckman & John P Formby & W James Smith, 2004. "Efficiency, Equity And Democracy: Experimental Evidence On Okun’S Leaky Bucket," Research on Economic Inequality, in: Inequality, Welfare and Income Distribution: Experimental Approaches, pages 17-42, Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
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    DOI: 10.1016/S1049-2585(04)11002-8
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    1. Christoph Engel & Luigi Mittone & Azzurra Morreale, 2024. "Outcomes or participation? Experimentally testing competing sources of legitimacy for taxation," Economic Inquiry, Western Economic Association International, vol. 62(2), pages 563-583, April.
    2. Bernasconi, Michele & Neunhoeffer, Frieder, 2023. "The income inequality trap: When redistributive preferences do not correct greater inequality," Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics (formerly The Journal of Socio-Economics), Elsevier, vol. 107(C).

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