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Consequences, Opportunities, and Generalized Consequentialism and Non-consequentialism
Suzumura, Kotaro; Xu, Yongsheng - Center for Intergenerational Studies, Institute of … - 2000
In a recent paper to appear in Journal of Economic Theory [Kotaro Suzumura and Yongsheng Xe, "Characterizations of Consequentialism and Non-consequentialism"], an analytical framework was developed, which allowed us to characterize the concept of consequentialism and non-consequentialism. To...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005018572
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Measuring Opportunity Inequality with Monetary Transfers
Kranich, Laurence - University at Albany, SUNY, Department of Economics - 1999
In this paper I consider the problem of measuring opportunity inequality when monetary transfers are possible. First, I consider the case in which agents have homogeneous preferences, as in the previous literature, and I then propose an extension to the heterogeneous case. In both, I identify an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008517755
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Is Commodity Taxation Unfair?
Fleurbaey, Marc - Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative … - 2005
In a model where agents have unequal skills and heterogeneous preferences about consumption goods and leisure, this paper studies how to combine linear commodity taxes and non-linear income tax. It proposes a particular social welfare function on the basis of fairness principles. It then derives...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005292388
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Prevention against equality?
Fleurbaey, Marc; Ponthiere, Gregory - In: Journal of Public Economics 103 (2013) C, pp. 68-84
acknowledged that an early death is a serious disadvantage, and that attention should be paid to the compensation of short …-lived individuals. This paper re-examines the compatibility of those two concerns: prevention against early death and compensation for … a concern for compensation. The reason is that if it is socially desirable to raise the number of survivors through …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010679136
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Compensating the Dead? Yes we can!
Fleurbaey, Marc; Leroux, Marie-Louise; Ponthière, Grégory - Groupement de Recherche en Économie Quantitative … - 2010
An early death is, undoubtedly, a serious disadvantage. However, the compensation of short-lived individuals has … ex ante, and cannot be compensated ex post. We argue that, despite the above difficulties, compensation can be carried …
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On redistribution effects of public debt amongst single-minded generations
Canegrati, Emanuele - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
In this paper I will introduce a new political economy model, where there exists a competition amongst two political candidates, which aim to set a policy which enables them to win elections, max- imising the probability of winning. I will show that, if taxes neces- sary to repay the debt are...
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A formula for the optimal taxation in Probabilistic Voting Models characterized by Single Mindedness
Canegrati, Emanuele - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
This work intends to specify a formula for the optimal taxation in Probabilistic Voting Models with Single Mindedness Theory. The goal is to find an equivalent expression to the Ramsey’s rule for a political economy environment where Governments are assumed to be Leviathans rather than...
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Environmental Taxation and Redistribution Concerns
Aigner, Rafael - Max-Planck-Institut zur Erforschung von … - 2011
This paper shows how the optimal level of Pigouvian taxation is influenced by distributive concerns. With second-best instruments, a higher level of income redistribution calls for a lower level of Pigouvian taxation. More redistributionimplies that tax collection via the income tax creates...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009418470
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Topology of utility possibility frontiers of economies with Ramsey taxation
Murty, Sushama - Department of Economics, University of Warwick - 2009
This paper establishes the generic size and structure of the second-best Pareto frontier and its various components in private ownership economies with Ramsey taxation. It provides conditions under which the second-best Pareto frontier of an economy with H consumers will have the expected...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005064196
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The Effect of Addiction on Environmental Taxation in a First and Second-best world
Löfgren, Åsa - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Handelshögskolan - 2003
We examine the effect of addictive behavior on a socially optimal environmental tax. If utility in part depends on past consumption and individuals are time-consistent, the socially optimal environmental tax is shown to be equal to the conventional Pigovian tax. In a second-best world where the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005651663