The Theoretical Limits to Redistribution

DOI10.2307/2297686MaRDI QIDQ3677448zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Kevin W. S. Roberts

Publication date 1984

Published in Review of Economic Studies (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.2307/2297686

zbMATH Keywords

allocation mechanismsBayesian strategiesdominant strategiesNash strategiesredistribution of welfareTaxation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Group preferences (91B10) General equilibrium theory (91B50)

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• On redistributive taxation under the threat of high-skill emigration
• A theorem on utilitarian redistribution
• Randomization, revelation, and redistribution in a Lerner world
• Laissez-faire or full redistribution?
• The limits of meritocracy
• Redistribution by means of lotteries
• Tax systems and direct mechanisms in large finite economies
• Advantageous redistribution with three smooth CES utility functions
• Redistribution and Small Coalitions of Friends
• Redistribution through markets
• Obstacles to redistribution through markets and one solution
• Social sampling, self-anchoring and redistribution
• Tagging with leisure needs
• Incomplete property rights, redistribution, and welfare

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