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  • 5 - Inframarginalism and the Distributive Corollary of the Coase Theorem

  • Edited by Ramsi A. Woodcock, University of Kentucky
  • Book:
    Toward an Inframarginal Revolution
    Published online:
    26 September 2025
    Print publication:
    16 October 2025, pp 124-160

  • Summary

    The double-distortion argument holds that income taxation is more efficient than redistribution through changes in legal rules because a change in a legal rule distorts both the market to which the rule applies and, by altering incomes of market participants, the labor market as well. The argument succeeds only if it is possible to achieve the same distributive outcomes with the income tax as with changes to legal rules. This is not the case, however, because tax authorities cannot obtain information regarding the extent of the surplus available for redistribution without altering legal rules in individual markets and observing whether the effect is inframarginal (in which case there is surplus available for redistribution) or marginal (in which case there is not). This point is illustrated using the Ayres and Talley model of Coasean bargaining with divided entitlements.

  • 1 - Orienting the Argument

  • from Part I - Introduction
  • Matthew Dimick, University of Buffalo School of Law
  • Book:
    Ending Income Inequality
    Published online:
    09 June 2025
    Print publication:
    26 June 2025, pp 3-13
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