Individual welfare, social deprivation and income taxation

Economic Theory

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 843-869

  Chakravarty, Satya R ^a   Moyes, Patrick ^b  

^a INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE   (India)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Deprivation; Individual welfare; Progressivity; Taxation; Welfarism

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037791885     PISSN: 09382259     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00199-002-0276-9     Document Type: Article

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