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Welfare, Incentives, and Taxation$
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James Mirrlees

Print publication date: 2006

Print ISBN-13: 9780198295211

Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: October 2011

DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198295211.001.0001

The Economic Uses of Utilitarianism

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(p. 69 ) 4 The Economic Uses of Utilitarianism
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Welfare, Incentives, and Taxation
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James A. Mirrlees

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Oxford University Press
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198295211.003.0005

This chapter discusses the total utility of the outcome, which is an argument related to the evaluation of some economists regarding alternative economic policies. One of the questions related to this argument is how much income should be redistributed from those with high wages and salaries to those with low wages. The chapter also includes an exercise, which aims to determine that the feasible redistributive system is able to bring the greatest total utility.

Keywords:   total utility, economists, evaluation, economic policies, income, redistributive system

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