This article proposes a novel theoretical model that factors in individualism culture for explaining tax progressivity. It shows an increase the level of reduces optimal progressivity, regardless whether social planner or voters choose income schedule. Moreover, pre-tax inequality raises progressivity voters, any given individualism. These findings from introducing are quite original. makes imp...

This article addresses the social and historical relation between Chicago School neo-liberalism and contemporary racism, and its connections with the formations of racism in classical liberalism and its colonial character. I show the pragmatic and discursive operations of neo-racism in the context of this shift to a neo-liberal discourse, drawing particularly on Michel Foucault’s seminars, Soci...