An Exploration in the Theory of Optimum Income Taxation.

Mirrlees, J. A. (1971). An Exploration in the Theory of Optimum Income Taxation. Review of Economic Studies.

Type

Journal article

Intellectual base

Review or monograph

Year

1971

DOI

10.2307/2296779

Link

https://doi.org/10.2307/2296779

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economics_finance

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2 citations across 2 artifacts.

Primes

• Marginal Utility
  • … utility of leisure relative to consumption anchors labor supply) , welfare and redistribution (social welfare functions aggregate individual marginal utilities, subject to interpersonal-comparability assumptions), and optimal taxation (the marginal utility of income determines the optimal tax rate on an individual
• Screening
  • The theory has been developed for continuous type distributions (Mirrlees 1971

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