There is clear evidence that fairness plays a role in redistribution. Individuals want to compensate others for their misfortune, while they allow them to enjoy the fruits of their effort. This paper introduces fairness in a tax-benefit scheme that is based on several characteristics in order to...

We characterize a measure of social welfare for linear production economies in which individuals differ in productive skills and preferences. The key feature of our measure is that it aggregates fairness gaps, defined as the difference between the money-metric utility that the individual...

Steueroasen, das waren bisher immer die anderen - alpine Täler und karibische Inseln. Auf der Grundlage jahrelanger Recherchen zeigt Markus Meinzer in diesem Buch erstmals, wie Deutschland im internationalen Steuerflucht- und Geldwäschegeschäft aktiv mitmischt