Redistribution as income insurance?

摘要

In Chap. 13 of The Calculus of Consent, Buchanan and Tullock argue that redistribution through the tax and transfer system may be viewed as income insurance agreed to at the constitutional stage. This idea has been eagerly taken up by well-known adherents of the welfare state (e.g., Arrow 1963; Rawls 1971; Mirrlees 1974; Diamond and Mirrlees 1978; Varian 1980; Sinn 1995; Lindbeck 2006; and Blundell 2006).