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广义社会边际福利权重意味着税收政策比较的不一致性

Generalized Social Marginal Welfare Weights Imply Inconsistent Comparisons of Tax Policies

Itai Sher

AI总结:

本文针对Saez和Stantcheva的广义社会边际福利权重方法,证明其局部税收政策比较隐含全局比较,且非功利结构下该全局比较不一致,指出需更彻底修正功利主义方法以纳入更广泛伦理价值。

摘要:

本文研究Saez与Stantcheva(2016)提出的广义社会边际福利权重,该方法在汇总税收政策带来的损益的同时纳入非功利主义伦理考量,无需全局社会目标即可评估局部税收变动。本文证明,局部税收政策比较隐含着全局比较;且当福利权重不具备功利主义结构时,这些隐含的全局比较存在不一致。本文认为,更广泛的伦理价值通常无法仅通过调整不同人群受益的权重来体现,需要对功利主义方法进行更彻底的修正。

英文摘要:

This paper concerns Saez and Stantcheva's (2016) generalized social marginal welfare weights, which aggregate losses and gains due to tax policies, while incorporating non-utilitarian ethical considerations. The approach evaluates local tax changes without a global social objective. I show that local tax policy comparisons implicitly entail global comparisons. Moreover, whenever welfare weights do not have a utilitarian structure, these implied global comparisons are inconsistent. I argue that broader ethical values cannot in general be represented simply by modifying the weights placed on benefits to different people, and a more thoroughgoing modification of the utilitarian approach is required.

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