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发帖数: 1707 | 1 Apr 1st 2004
From The Economist print edition
Europe's big welfare states are surprisingly efficient—and surprisingly
inequitable
ECONOMISTS, who prize efficiency above equity, have long given warning of the
dangers of redistribution. England's poor laws, which paid a pittance to the
destitute out of taxes, earned David Ricardo's condemnation in the early 19th
century. “The principle of gravitation is not more certain than the tendency
of such laws to change wealth and power into misery and weak | s*******d
发帖数: 59 | 2 不是很明白，luxuries的消费随价格变化大吗？
A second principle dates from a 1927 paper by Frank Ramsey, a Cambridge
polymath. In essence, Ramsey's theory says that those goods or services most
sensitive to price should be taxed the least; those least sensitive to price
should be taxed the most. Scandinavian tax systems, in particular, are close
to the spirit of the Ramsey rule. They lean on labour rather than on capital,
because capitalists are deterred from investing more easily than workers are
discouraged from | r*******g
发帖数: 1707 | 3 greater price elasticity ah, compared to addicting consumption and normal
goods.
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: 不是很明白，luxuries的消费随价格变化大吗？
: A second principle dates from a 1927 paper by Frank Ramsey, a Cambridge
: polymath. In essence, Ramsey's theory says that those goods or services most
: sensitive to price should be taxed the least; those least sensitive to price
: should be taxed the most. Scandinavian tax systems, in particular, are close
: to the spirit of the Ramsey rule. They lean on labour rather than on capital,
: because capitalists are deterred from investing more easily than workers are
: discouraged from
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