TRANSFER APPROACHES TO DISTRIBUTION POLICY
研究收入从市场来源到最终用于商品和服务的过程中,如何通过转移方式改变对要素所有者的分配,并回顾了一些当前向穷人增加转移的提案。
There are two ways to alter the pattern of economic inequality among persons. One is to modify the distribution of factor income by changing the underlying distribution of factors or the prices or employment of those factors. The second is to modify the process by which factor income is redistributed away from its recipients. This paper is about the second way. We ask how the distribution to factor owners is and can be modified as income moves from its market origins to its disposition on goods and services. At the outset, we sketch an accounting framework within which to envision this process whereby producer incomes are transformed into user incomes. In later sections, we review some current proposals for additional transfers to the poor.