Under a deadweight loss of tax and transfer, there is tension between the optimal policy choices of a Rawlsian social planner and a utilitarian social planner. However, when with a weight greater than a certain critical value the individuals’ utility functions incorporate distaste for low relative income, a utilitarian will select exactly the same income distribution as a Rawlsian
Utilitarianism would allow any degree of inequality whatsoever productive of the greatest happiness ...
We propose a formalization of the Difference Principle (maximin) by which Rawls’ contribution is sh...
Social democracy based on welfare and the redistribution of social contributions is failing. The acc...
Under a deadweight loss of tax and transfer, there is tension between the optimal policy choices of ...
Let there be two individuals: “rich,” and “poor.” Due to inefficiency of the income redistribution p...
We show that a social planner who seeks to allocate a given sum in order to reduce efficiently the s...
When individuals’ utility is a convex combination of their income and their concern at having a low ...
A utilitarian social planner who maximizes social welfare assigns the available income to those who ...
www.wiwi.uni-tuebingen.de Reconciling the Rawlsian and the utilitarian approaches to the maximizatio...
In determining the optimal redistribution of a given population’s income, we ask which factor is mor...
Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível SuperiorThis dissertation aims to show that the c...
A common assumption in the optimal taxation literature is that the social planner maximizes a welfar...
A common assumption in the optimal taxation literature is that the social planner maximizes a welfa...
In a model with heterogeneous workers, quasi‐linear utility and both intensive and extensive margins...
A utilitarian social planner who maximizes social welfare assigns the available income to those who ...
Utilitarianism would allow any degree of inequality whatsoever productive of the greatest happiness ...
We propose a formalization of the Difference Principle (maximin) by which Rawls’ contribution is sh...
Social democracy based on welfare and the redistribution of social contributions is failing. The acc...
Under a deadweight loss of tax and transfer, there is tension between the optimal policy choices of ...
Let there be two individuals: “rich,” and “poor.” Due to inefficiency of the income redistribution p...
We show that a social planner who seeks to allocate a given sum in order to reduce efficiently the s...
When individuals’ utility is a convex combination of their income and their concern at having a low ...
A utilitarian social planner who maximizes social welfare assigns the available income to those who ...
www.wiwi.uni-tuebingen.de Reconciling the Rawlsian and the utilitarian approaches to the maximizatio...
In determining the optimal redistribution of a given population’s income, we ask which factor is mor...
Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível SuperiorThis dissertation aims to show that the c...
A common assumption in the optimal taxation literature is that the social planner maximizes a welfar...
A common assumption in the optimal taxation literature is that the social planner maximizes a welfa...
In a model with heterogeneous workers, quasi‐linear utility and both intensive and extensive margins...
A utilitarian social planner who maximizes social welfare assigns the available income to those who ...
Utilitarianism would allow any degree of inequality whatsoever productive of the greatest happiness ...
We propose a formalization of the Difference Principle (maximin) by which Rawls’ contribution is sh...
Social democracy based on welfare and the redistribution of social contributions is failing. The acc...