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Public Economics Lectures Part 1: Introduction

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Diamond and Mirrlees Model: Key Assumptions<br />

Result hinges on key assumptions about govt’s ability to:<br />

1 Set a full set of differentiated tax rates on each input and output<br />

2 Tax away fully pure profits (or production is constant-returns-to-scale)<br />

A2 rules out improving welfare by taxing profitable industries to<br />

improve distribution at expense of prod. eff.<br />

These assumptions effectively separate the production and<br />

consumption problems<br />

<strong>Public</strong> <strong>Economics</strong> <strong>Lectures</strong> () <strong>Part</strong> 4: Optimal Taxation 49 / 121

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