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Tax Policy

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Bounded Rationality and Public Policy

Part of the book series: The Economics of Non-Market Goods and Resources ((ENGO,volume 12))

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We have touched on issues surrounding tax in several of the previous chapters. In Chapter 7, for instance, several of the standard merit wants models were analysed. The basic theme of this chapter is that even with an incomplete welfare ranking it is possible to make some claims about the nature of desirable tax policies. I support this argument in two ways

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Munro, A. (2009). Tax Policy. In: Bounded Rationality and Public Policy. The Economics of Non-Market Goods and Resources, vol 12. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1023/b99496_9

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