Slope Versus Elasticity and the Burden of Taxation

Philip Graves (), Robert L. Sexton and Dwight R. Lee

The Journal of Economic Education, 1996, vol. 27, issue 3, 229-232

Abstract: The incidence of the burden of a tax is usually presented as an application of elasticity in introductory economics. A more useful exposition of tax incidence results if slope is used rather than elasticity.

Date: 1996
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