Voting over flat taxes in an endowment economy

Economics Letters

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 251-258

  Gouveia, Miguel ^a,b,c   Oliver, David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^c CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF PORTUGAL   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Flat taxes; Income taxes; Majority rule

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030306924     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0165-1765(95)00749-0     Document Type: Article

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