A ‘Rights-Based’ Approach to Optimal Tax Policy
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In this chapter I propose a comprehensive framework for the evaluation of policy reforms that have both winners and losers. The starting point of the analysis is the identification of what individuals have a right to. The next step is the identification of principles of efficiency, fairness, and robustness out of which a social ordering function can be constructed for the ranking of social states. The resulting methodology gives priority in the social evaluation to the situation of those individuals who are being treated the most unfairly by policies, relative to what they have a right to. The chapter aims to illustrate how to implement the methodology in a situation involving tax reform.
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2015 ◽
Vol 44
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pp. 687-705
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2021 ◽
Vol 88
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pp. 103653
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1985 ◽
Vol 27
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pp. 211-230
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