NON‐WELFARIST OPTIMAL TAXATION AND BEHAVIOURAL PUBLIC ECONOMICS
统一了非福利主义最优税收文献，并将行为公共经济学视为该框架的自然特例，探讨政府如何通过税收和补贴纠正个体违背自身意愿的行为。
Abstract Research in behavioural economics has uncovered the widespread phenomenon of people making decisions against their own good intentions. In these situations, the government might want to intervene, indeed individuals might want the government to intervene, to induce behaviour that is closer to what individuals wish they were doing. The analysis of such corrective interventions, through taxes and subsidies, might be called ‘behavioural public economics’. However, such analysis, where the government has an objective function that is different from that of individuals, is not new in public economics. In these cases the government is said to be ‘non‐welfarist’ in its objectives, and there is a long tradition of non‐welfarist welfare economics, especially the analysis of optimal taxation and subsidy policy where the outcomes of individual behaviour are evaluated using a preference function different from the one that generated the outcomes. First of all the object of this paper is to present a unified view of the non‐welfarist optimal taxation literature and, second, to present behavioural public economics as a natural special case of this general framework.