The concept of redistribution is conceptually unified by reducing the incentive to accumulate wealth.

Following Alesina and Rodrik’s paper redistribution is defined here as any policy that reduces the incentive to accumulate. Taking growth maximizing policies as a benchmark has its virtues since people appear to have difficulties disentangling the relationship between utility enhancing income growth and the distribution of income at each point in time. See, e.g. Amiel and Cowell (1999). Thus, any policy s5^s redistributes and lowers growth in the model.19