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ECONOMIC JOURNAL
Volume 122, Issue 565, Pages 1244-1261Publisher
WILEY-BLACKWELL
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0297.2012.02541.x
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Ideas about what is fair influence preferences for redistribution. We study the dynamic evolution of different economies in which redistributive policies, perception of fairness, inequality and growth are jointly determined. We show how including beliefs about fairness can keep two otherwise identical countries on different development paths for a very long time. We show how different initial conditions regarding how fair is the same level of inequality can lead to two permanently different steady states. We also explore how bequest taxation can be an efficient way of redistributing wealth to correct unfair past accumulation of inequality.
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