clause, in the then-proposed United States Constitution, which intended to give open-ended borrowing authority to the United …

This paper challenges the leading academic, political, and cultural narrative supporting greater redistribution. The … narrative holds that redistribution should come at the expense of a very restricted group of the highest earners: the one … redistribution from a much broader group that includes the affluent—those with incomes in the ninetieth to ninety-ninth percentiles …

redistribution is no business of the law. This efficiency-only doctrine is not that redistribution is unworthy as a social objective … initial distortion arising from redistribution pre se, through taxation or through law, and an additional distortion all its … inapplicable to most of what is commonly thought of as redistributive law. Redistribution is best supplied by a balance of law and …

approach finds support in the economic literature, which postulates that redistribution through the tax system is more …

discussion of fiscal redistribution within the standard social welfareframework, which lends itself to a transparent and … practical evaluation of the extent anddeterminants of fiscal redistribution. Differences in fiscal redistribution are decomposed … factorsexplaining differences in their fiscal redistribution and to discuss patterns in fiscalredistribution highlighted in the …

provides a unique opportunity to study revealed preferences for redistribution. We study the motives driving tax protests …