The application of welfare economics to taxation

Katalin Solt

Public Finance Quarterly, 2008, vol. 53, issue 4, 708-720

Abstract: Theoretical approaches with different points of departure often concentrate on the very same subject, however, there are only few analyses in scientific literature that offer a comparison of studies with different approaches. I try to apply this conception in my paper. Within that, I dwell on questions that are “simple” to present with the theoretical approach of welfare economics, but their practical application raises doubts in many. I give a few examples to illustrate how theoretical models can be transformed into models suitable for concrete analyses. Then I sum up the most important elements of the views criticising the “traditional” theory of the welfare effects of taxation, and provide a summary of those critiques by pointing out the contradictions of theoretical models and practical applicability.

Date: 2008
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