When Should Legal Rules be Used to Redistribute Income?

Debates about income inequality are everywhere. Yet the conventional wisdom in Law and Economics is that legal rules should be designed exclusively to promote efficiency, with income redistribution left to the tax system.

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eYLS (Yale Law School)
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2025-01-01
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Legal and Constitutional Studies
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When Should Legal Rules be Used to Redistribute Income?

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Legal and Constitutional Studies
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When Should Legal Rules be Used to Redistribute Income?

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Abstract

Debates about income inequality are everywhere. Yet the conventional wisdom in Law and Economics is that legal rules should be designed exclusively to promote efficiency, with income redistribution left to the tax system.

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