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Benefit-Cost Analysis and Distortionary Taxes: A Public Choice Approach

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  • Ted Bergstrom

    (University of Michigan, Dept of Economics)

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This paper seeks useful conditions relating individual preferences to willingness to support specific governmental tax-expenditure proposals. This discussion follows Wicksell in considering only tax-expenditure proposals that specifically tie expenditures to taxes that finance them.

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  • Ted Bergstrom, 1994. "Benefit-Cost Analysis and Distortionary Taxes: A Public Choice Approach," Public Economics 9401005, University Library of Munich, Germany.
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    • D6 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics
    • D7 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making
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