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It's fundamental: welfare theorems, market failures, and the turn from "public finance" to "public economics"

Medema, Steven G. - 2022 - Version 1.3

economists had done "work of high quality and great quantity in the field of taxation," the theory of public expenditure had been … inquiries. Indeed, by the mid-1980s the 'public expenditure theory' lacuna lamented by Samuelson had largely been filled with … explain this transformation, locating its origins in Richard Musgrave's normative theory of the public household and the …

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Should income inequality be praised? : multiple public goods provision, income distribution and social welfare

Itaya, Jun-ichi; Mizushima, Atsue - 2016

We investigate how income inequality affects social welfare in a model of voluntary contributions to multiple pure public goods. Itaya, de Meza, and Myles (1997) show that the maximization of social welfare precludes income equality in a single pure public good model. In contrast, we show that...

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A unified perspective on efficiency, redistribution, and public policy

Kaplow, Louis - 2020

Specialized theoretical and empirical research should in principle be embedded in a unified framework that identifies the relevant interactions among different phenomena, enables an appropriate matching of policy instruments to objectives, and grounds normative analysis in individuals' utilities...

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