Chapter 15 Pareto efficient and optimal taxation and the new new welfare economics

Handbook of Public Economics

Volumn 2, Issue , 1987, Pages 991-1042

  Stiglitz, Joseph E ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 33749306267     PISSN: 15734420     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S1573-4420(87)80010-1     Document Type: Article

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