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• Course Overview Note | December 2017

  Business, Government, and the International Economy (BGIE)

  Matthew Weinzierl

  Keywords: Business and Government Relations; International Relations; Trade;

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  Weinzierl, Matthew. "Business, Government, and the International Economy (BGIE)." Harvard Business School Course Overview Note 718-033, December 2017.  View Details

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• Background Note | HBS Case Collection | January 2010 (Revised November 2017)

  GUIDES: Insight through Indicators

  Matthew Weinzierl, Jonathan Schlefer and Ann Cullen

  GUIDES is an easily remembered framework that can help the business leader and student to confidently and quickly identify, organize, and interpret a country's key economic indicators. Alternatively, it can help them to evaluate third-party analyses and to compare such analyses across countries. In either case, this framework provides a structured way to complete and communicate analysis of a country's economic data.

  Keywords: Economy; Macroeconomics; Framework; Country; Analysis; Performance Evaluation;

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  Weinzierl, Matthew, Jonathan Schlefer, and Ann Cullen. "GUIDES: Insight through Indicators." Harvard Business School Background Note 710-044, January 2010. (Revised November 2017.)  View Details

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• Article | Journal of Public Economics

  Popular Acceptance of Inequality Due to Innate Brute Luck and Support for Classical Benefit-based Taxation

  Matthew C. Weinzierl

  U.S. survey respondents' views on distributive justice differ in two specific, related ways from what is conventionally assumed in modern optimal tax research. When expressing their preferences over allocations in stylized, hypothetical scenarios meant to isolate key features of the tax problem, a large share of respondents resist the full equalization of unequal outcomes due to innate brute luck that standard analyses recommend. A similar share prefer a classical benefit-based logic for taxes over the conventional logic of diminishing marginal social welfare. Moreover, these two views are linked: respondents who more strongly resist equalization are more likely to prefer the classical benefit-based principle. Though the Amazon Mechanical Turk survey population is not a representative sample of the U.S. population, robustness of these results across demographic traits and political views suggests that a large share of the American public holds views inconsistent with standard welfarist objectives.

  Keywords: Optimal taxation; welfarism; luck; benefit-based taxation; Taxation; Equality and Inequality; Attitudes;

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  Weinzierl, Matthew C. "Popular Acceptance of Inequality Due to Innate Brute Luck and Support for Classical Benefit-based Taxation." Journal of Public Economics 155 (November 2017): 54–63.  View Details

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