Le Clainche, Christine; Wittwer, Jérôme - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2009
This article studies the formation of preferences regarding redistribution. Its aim is to demonstrate how preferences … for redistribution are influenced by individual beliefs on the origins of social inequality and public values. The first … section shows, through a microeconomic model, how preferences on redistribution can be understood as the outcome of “normative …