| 来源类型 | Discussion paper
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| 规范类型 | 论文
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| 来源ID | DP6384
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| DP6384 Human Capital, Mortality and Fertility: A Unified Theory of the Economic and Demographic Transition |
| Uwe Sunde; Matteo Cervellati
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| 发表日期 | 2007-07-13
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| 出版年 | 2007
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| 语种 | 英语
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| 摘要 | Wealthy individuals often voluntarily provide public goods that the poor also consume. Such philanthropy is perceived as legitimizing one?s wealth. Governments routinely exempt the rich from taxation on grounds of their charitable expenditure. We examine the normative logic of this exemption. We show that, rather than reducing it, philanthropy may aggravate absolute inequality in welfare achievement, while leaving the change in relative inequality ambiguous. Additionally, philanthropic preferences may increase the effectiveness of policies to redistribute income, instead of weakening them. Consequently, the general normative case for exempting the wealthy from expropriation, on grounds of their public goods contributions, appears dubious. |
| 主题 | Public Economics
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| 关键词 | Community
Distribution
Egalitarianism
Inequality
Philanthropy
Public goods
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| URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp6384
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| 来源智库 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom)
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物
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| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/535222
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Uwe Sunde,Matteo Cervellati. DP6384 Human Capital, Mortality and Fertility: A Unified Theory of the Economic and Demographic Transition. 2007.
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