The Equal-Sacrifice Social Welfare Function with an Application to Optimal Income Taxation
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Keywords
equal-sacrifice principle; optimal income taxation; welfare criterion;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D63 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
- H21 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - Efficiency; Optimal Taxation
- I31 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - General Welfare, Well-Being
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- NEP-PBE-2020-09-28 (Public Economics)
- NEP-PUB-2020-09-28 (Public Finance)
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