A note on Fairness and Redistribution

We note some problems in Alesina and Angeletos (2005) and suggest a way to maintain the key insight of that paper, which is that a demand for fairness could lead to different economic systems such as those observed in France versus the US (multiple equilibria).

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Year of publication:	2010-12
Authors:	Di Tella, Rafael ; Dubra, Juan
Institutions:	Harvard Business School, Harvard University
Subject:	Inequality \| taxation \| redistribution \| political economy

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Extent:	application/pdf
Series:	Harvard Business School Working Papers.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Notes:	Number 11-059 16 pages
Classification:	D31 - Personal Income, Wealth and Their Distributions ; E62 - Fiscal Policy; Public Expenditures, Investment, and Finance; Taxation ; H2 - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue ; P16 - Political Economy
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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