In recent years there has been a renewed effort to ground conventional law and economics methodology, with its exclusive focus on efficiency and income redistribution through the tax system, in modern welfare economics ( Kaplow & Shavell 1994, 2001 ). This effort raises a challenge to the...

In 1987 I published an article in which I suggested that many philosophies or world views could support a progressive income tax, including a feminist view. (The Rhetoric of the Anti-Progressive Income Tax Movement: A Typical Male Reaction, 86 MICH. L. REV. 465 (1987)). Nearly 10 years later,...