The purpose of the present note is to explore the structure of optimal income taxation/redistribution in an economy …, of course, an additional incentive for income redistribution from wealthy to poor citizens is created and the logical …

importance in light of concerns about inequality, potential for misunderstanding, and prospects for advancement. Throughout, the …

The marginal social value of income redistribution is understood to depend on both the concavity of individuals … taxation and on normative inequality measurement, it seems to be accepted that the role of these two sources of concavity is … symmetric with regard to the social concern about inequality in the distribution of income. Direct examination of the question …

redistribution creates more post-tax inequality. The welfare state will encounter severe risks when free migration of people, goods … the moral hazard effects tend to increase the inequality in the economy, and, under constant returns to risk taking, this … taxation will either imply that the pie becomes bigger when there is less inequality in pre-tax incomes or that more …

provides a unique opportunity to study preferences for redistribution via revealed preference. We study the motives driving tax …