This paper inverts the usual logic of the applied optimal income taxation literature. Standard practice analyzes the shape of the optimal tax schedule that is consistent with a given social welfare function, a statistical distribution of individual productivities that fits available data on...

This paper provides a short survey of the recent theoretical and the empirical literature on the existence of a negative relationship between economic inequality on one hand, and growth or economic development on the other. The emphasis of the paper is on the lessons to be drawn from these...

The paper presents a brief review of recent work that focuses on the normative economics of international trade. In an Heckscher Ohlin - like economy, with skilled and unskilled workers, the available redistributive tools, (that include income taxation) are not powerful enough to allow the...

Cet article propose un panorama critique de la litterature empirique, recente ou plus ancienne, consacree a l'hypothese d'alea moral, selon laquelle une couverture maladie plus complete conduirait a davantage de depenses.

This paper analyses the links between openness, education and inequality from a political economy point of view. We start by presenting various channels through which external liberalization may affect the pattern of educational responses and we derive the implications for inequality and...