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Department of economics university of california, berkeley. Taxing ourselves bridges the gap between the two by discussing the key issues clearly and without a political agenda. Regressive sin taxes, with an application to the optimal soda tax, the quarterly journal of economics, oxford university press, vol. Although it would be relatively easy to carry on in the spirit of psychologists at the gate. Pdf icon problem set 1 exercise on present bias and retirement savings.