An Exploration in the Theory of Optimum Income Taxation

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James Mirrlees

Publication date: 1971

Published in: The Review of Economic Studies (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://semanticscholar.org/paper/542c35bb1168c5291dfd2554aa690228d0b6b4c7



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