--- that is, they gain utility from "keeping up with the Joneses" --- they also exhibit altruism. Two sets of efficient tax … regimes are compared, based, on a welfarist- and a non-welfarist optimality criterion, respectively. Altruism turns out not to … be at odds with the consumption externalities. Rather, altruism implicates a bound on efficient utility allocations. A …

- that is, they gain utility from "keeping up with the Joneses" - they also exhibit altruism. Two sets of efficient tax … regimes are compared, based, on a welfarist- and a non-welfarist optimality criterion, respectively. Altruism turns out not to … be at odds with the consumption externalities. Rather, altruism implicates a bound on efficient utility allocations. A …

) that the warm glow of giving and stigma of receiving charity may to some extent depend on relative comparisons; and (iii …) that people are also concerned with their relative consumption more generally. Whether charity should be taxed or supported … turns out to largely depend on the relative strengths of the warm glow of giving and the stigma of receiving charity …