NDLI: Charitable conservatism, poverty radicalism and inequality aversion

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Author	Kanbur, Ravi Tuomala, Matti
Copyright Year	2010
Abstract	In his Presidential Address to the European Economic Association, Tony Atkinson introduced the idea of a “charitable conservatism” position in public policy, which “exhibits a degree of concern for the poor, but this is the limit of the redistributional concern and there is indifference with respect to transfers above the poverty line.” This contrasts with the perspective of poverty indices, which give zero weight to those above the poverty line, which we call “poverty radicalism,” and with standard “inequality aversion” where the weights decline smoothly as we move up the income scale. The object of this paper is, first, to clarify the interrelationships between charitable conservatism, poverty radicalism and inequality aversion. We do this by showing how the patterns of welfare weights to which each of these gives rise are related to each other. Secondly, we are concerned to demonstrate the implications of these different views for optimal income taxation. In terms of levels and patterns of marginal tax rates, we show that charitable conservatism and poverty radicalism are on a continuum, and by choice of low or high inequality aversion one can approximate either outcome fairly well.
Starting Page	417
Ending Page	431
Page Count	15
File Format	PDF
ISSN	15691721
Journal	The Journal of Economic Inequality
Volume Number	9
Issue Number	3
e-ISSN	15738701
Language	English
Publisher	Springer US
Publisher Date	2010-09-25
Publisher Place	Boston
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Welfare weights Nonlinear income taxation Public Finance & Economics Political Science Development Economics International Economics Economic Growth
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Sociology and Political Science Economics, Econometrics and Finance Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

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