Positional goods... or positional people? Implications for taxation and happiness
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Keywords
Positional concerns; Relative income; Leisure; Taxation;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D0 - Microeconomics - - General
- D1 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior
- D63 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
- H21 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - Efficiency; Optimal Taxation
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-HAP-2009-01-17 (Economics of Happiness)
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