A Note on Fairness and Redistribution
Posted: 13 Dec 2010
Date Written: December 10, 2010
Abstract
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).
Keywords: Inequality, Taxation, Redistribution, Political Economy
JEL Classification: D31, E62, H2, P16
Suggested Citation: Suggested Citation
Di Tella, Rafael and Dubra, Juan, A Note on Fairness and Redistribution (December 10, 2010). Harvard Business School BGIE Unit Working Paper No. 11-059, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1724734
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