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Equity, Incentives, and Taxation

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  • © 1989

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Authors:
  1. Georg Tillmann

    1. Department of Economics, University of Bonn, Bonn, West Germany

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems (LNE, volume 329)

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Table of contents (4 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages N2-vi
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  2. Introduction

    • Georg Tillmann
    Pages 1-21

  3. Fairness and Production

    • Georg Tillmann
    Pages 22-43

  4. Redistribution, Observability and Different Tax Systems

    • Georg Tillmann
    Pages 44-94

  5. Taxation as Insurance

    • Georg Tillmann
    Pages 95-124

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 119-135
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Redistribution is one of the most fundamental issues in welfare economics. In connection with this term the following questions directly arise: What is a good redistribution ? Which (governmental) instruments should be used to attain it ? Is there a "best instrument" if several of them are available? Or, to express it more generally, which allocations are at all attainable if special instruments are at hand ? All these questions are formulated in an extremely vague way. It will be the task of the following work to make these questions precise and to give answers - as far as possible. It is a matter of course that these answers will not be exhaustive because redistribution is too wide a field. I have used the word "instrument" intentionally. In doing so, Iwanted to indicate that it is not necessary to restrict oneself to income - or commodity taxes as is common place in public finance when aiming at redistribution.

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  • Department of Economics, University of Bonn, Bonn, West Germany

    Georg Tillmann

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