caa a22 4500 477078613 CHVBK 20180405111444.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170330e19960401xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF00151733 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF00151733 Does inequality cause inflation?: The political economy of inflation, taxation and government debt [Elektronische Daten] [Roel Beetsma, Frederick Van Der Ploeg] A democratic society in which the distribution of wealth is unequal elects political parties that are likely to represent the interests of poor people. It is in the interests of the clientele of the resulting governments to attempt to levy inflation taxes in order to erode the real value of debt service and redistribute from the rich to the poor. Consequently, inequality and high levels of nominal government debt sow the seeds for inflation. Some cross-country evidence for this proposition is provided. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1996 Beetsma Roel LIFE/Department of Economics, University of Limburg, 6200 MD, Maastricht aut Van Der Ploeg Frederick Department of Economics, University of Amsterdam, and CEPR, The Netherlands aut Public Choice Kluwer Academic Publishers; gopher://gopher.wkap.nl 87/1-2(1996-04-01), 143-162 0048-5829 87:1-2<143 1996 87 11127 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00151733 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00151733 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Beetsma Roel LIFE/Department of Economics, University of Limburg, 6200 MD, Maastricht aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Van Der Ploeg Frederick Department of Economics, University of Amsterdam, and CEPR, The Netherlands aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Public Choice Kluwer Academic Publishers; gopher://gopher.wkap.nl/ 87/1-2(1996-04-01), 143-162 0048-5829 87:1-2<143 1996 87 11127 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer