Should the Law Do Anything About Economic Inequality
@article{Dimick2016ShouldTL, title={Should the Law Do Anything About Economic Inequality}, author={Matthew Dimick}, journal={Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy}, year={2016}, volume={26}, pages={1} }
What should be done about rising income and wealth inequality? Should the design and adoption of legal rules take into account their effects on the distribution of income and wealth? Or should the tax-and-transfer system be the exclusive means to address concerns about inequality? A widely-held view argues for the latter: only the tax system, and not the legal system, should be used to redistribute income. While this argument comes in a variety of normative arguments and has support across the…
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