caa a22 4500 445389354 CHVBK 20180317143041.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20110901xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10888-010-9150-3 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10888-010-9150-3 Charitable conservatism, poverty radicalism and inequality aversion [Elektronische Daten] [Ravi Kanbur, Matti Tuomala] In his Presidential Address to the European Economic Association, Tony Atkinson introduced the idea of a "charitable conservatism” position in public policy, which "exhibits a degree of concern for the poor, but this is the limit of the redistributional concern and there is indifference with respect to transfers above the poverty line.” This contrasts with the perspective of poverty indices, which give zero weight to those above the poverty line, which we call "poverty radicalism,” and with standard "inequality aversion” where the weights decline smoothly as we move up the income scale. The object of this paper is, first, to clarify the interrelationships between charitable conservatism, poverty radicalism and inequality aversion. We do this by showing how the patterns of welfare weights to which each of these gives rise are related to each other. Secondly, we are concerned to demonstrate the implications of these different views for optimal income taxation. In terms of levels and patterns of marginal tax rates, we show that charitable conservatism and poverty radicalism are on a continuum, and by choice of low or high inequality aversion one can approximate either outcome fairly well. Springer Science+Business Media, LLC., 2010 Welfare weights nationallicence Nonlinear income taxation nationallicence Kanbur Ravi Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA aut Tuomala Matti University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland aut The Journal of Economic Inequality Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 9/3(2011-09-01), 417-431 1569-1721 9:3<417 2011 9 10888 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10888-010-9150-3 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10888-010-9150-3 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Kanbur Ravi Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Tuomala Matti University of Tampere, Tampere, Finland aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- The Journal of Economic Inequality Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 9/3(2011-09-01), 417-431 1569-1721 9:3<417 2011 9 10888 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer