The Distributional Impact of Public Goods Provision: A Veil of Ignorance Approach

The "veil of ignorance" approach is used to consider the redistribution implied by different tax-benefit systems. Assuming a (hypothetical) ex-ante situation in which individuals lack any knowledge about their future income, redistribution from rich to poor can be seen as a form of insuran...

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Published in:The Scandinavian journal of economics 2000-12, Vol.102 (4), p.737-746
Main Authors: Thum, Claudio, Weichenrieder, Alfons J.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Central banks
Distribution
Economic conditions
Economic impact
Economic policy
Economic theory
Financial performance
Government budgets
Income taxes
Insurance
Lump sum taxation
Marginal rate of substitution
Marginal utility
Proportional taxes
Provisions
Public goods
public goods provision
Redistribution
Scandinavia
Studies
Taxation
Taxation systems
Total taxes
veil of ignorance
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Summary:The "veil of ignorance" approach is used to consider the redistribution implied by different tax-benefit systems. Assuming a (hypothetical) ex-ante situation in which individuals lack any knowledge about their future income, redistribution from rich to poor can be seen as a form of insurance. Taking redistribution and insurance as synonymous, the analysis derives cases of redistributionally neutral systems of taxation and public good provision.
ISSN:0347-0520
1467-9442
1467-9442
DOI:10.1111/1467-9442.00224