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Optimal taxation in theory and practice 060109 final
1 Optimal taxation in theory and practice N. Gregory Mankiw, Matthew Weinzierl, and Danny Yagan N. Gregory Mankiw is Professor of Economics, Matthew Weinzierl is Assistant Professor of Business Administration, and Danny Yagan is a candidate in Economics, all at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Their e-mail addresses are and 2 The Optimal design of a tax system is a topic that has long fascinated economic theorists and flummoxed economic policymakers. This paper explores the interplay between tax theory and tax policy.
taxation typically treats the social planner as a utilitarian: that is, the social welfare function is based on the utilities of individuals in the society. In its most general analyses, this literature uses ... 1 Stiglitz (1987) addressed the more restricted agenda of identifying Pareto-efficient taxation, an approach taken up
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