developing countries is affected by consumption gaps with advanced economies. By distorting intertemporal choices, envy tends to …

This paper examines the second-best tax policy to minimize envy in the sense of Chaudhuri (1986) and Diamantaras and … in the sense of Hemming and Keen (1983), with respect to the intensity of envy. Envy is then minimized in the most … progressive tax system. -- Income Taxation ; Envy …