Commodity taxes have three distinct roles: (1) revenue collection, (2) interpersonal redistribution, and (3) resource …

rise in inequality will lead to more redistribution. This paper shows that, for the UK in the period 1983-2004, a plausibly … exogenous rise in income inequality has not been associated with increased redistribution. We then explore this further using … attitudinal data. We show that the demand for redistribution, having shown considerable variation over time, is at an all-time low …

inequality. We estimate this parameter using four large cross-sectional surveys of subjective happiness and two panel surveys …

context of public attitudes to inequality and different forms of redistribution. It compares the distributional effects of the … public attitudes. However, delays between Budget announcements and implementation meant that inequality and relative poverty …

Public provision of private goods such as education is usually viewed as a form of redistribution in kind. However …, does it arise when income redistribution is feasible as well? In this paper I analyse a two-dimensional model of political … decision making. Society has to choose both the tax rate and the allocation of the revenues between income redistribution and …

low, the equilibrium policy is characterized by some amount of general income redistribution and some targeted transfers … interest groups and against general redistribution. As diversity increases further, however, only general redistribution …

Temkin (1986,1993) sets out a philosophical basis for the analysis of income inequality that provides an important … axiomatic structure and we use this structure to derive a new class of inequality indices and an inequality ordering. This class … of indices has a family relationship to well-known measures of inequality, deprivation and poverty. The ordering is shown …