Relativity, inequality, and optimal nonlinear income taxation

DOI10.1111/IERE.12033MaRDI QIDQ4620119zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Ravi Kanbur, Matti Tuomala

Publication date 7 February 2019

Published in International Economic Review (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/126958

zbMATH Keywords

inequalityrelativityprogressionutility functionsocial welfare functionoptimal nonlinear income taxation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Macroeconomic theory (monetary models, models of taxation) (91B64) Consumer behavior, demand theory (91B42) Welfare economics (91B15)

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