Between Distribution and Reallocation: The Politics of Taxation Revisited

December 8, 2017 2:15PM Goldman Room, Busch Hall

Lukas Haffert – Senior Researcher, University of Zurich; John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellow 2017-2018, CES, Harvard University; Visiting Scholar 2017-1918, CES, Harvard University

Daniel Mertens – Post Doctoral Fellow, University of Frankfurt

We will discuss a paper that explains the tax policy decisions governments make, not in terms of their redistributive impact, but in terms of the ways in which taxes affect the allocation of resources across economic sectors and the role of cross-class coalitions in the development of tax policy in the western democracies.

 

https://ces.fas.harvard.edu/events/2017/12/between-distribution-and-reallocation-the-politics-of-taxation-revisited