In the last two decades, questioning of the textbook model of individual choice behavior has accelerated. 'Imperfections' of individual choice behavior are increasingly accepted by the profession as viable empirical phenomena to be explained and incorporated. Non-standard objectives and decision...

This paper examines public good provision and tax policy — optimal non-linear income taxation and linear commodity taxation — when the government departs from purely welfarist objective function and seeks to minimise poverty. This assumption reflects much policy discussion and may help...

The existing literature on optimal taxation typically assumes there exists a capacity to implement complex tax schemes, which is not necessarily the case for many developing countries. We examine the determinants of optimal redistributive policies in the context of a developing country that can...