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Item Positional Externalities as an Argument for Tax Progressivity: A Critical Analysis(2013-08) Quain, Anthony James; Quain, Anthony James; Klein, Daniel B.In the last forty years, social science research has demonstrated that individuals care significantly about relative ("positional") economic well-being and that gains in private income and/or consumption thereby cast a negative externality on other individuals whose own income and/or consumption declines in relative terms. To resolve the externality, a progressive income or consumption tax has been advocated. In this dissertation I present three papers that critically analyze tax progressivity as a response to positional externalities.