Taxation : philosophical perspectives /

This text gives a collective treatment of philosophical issues relating to tax. Given that the tax system is central to the operation of states and to the ways in which states interact with individual citizens, more interdisciplinary attention to conceptual and normative issues relating to tax is ur...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: O'Neill, Martin, 1975- (Editor), Orr, Shepley W., 1969- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2018.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Engaging philosophy.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Pt. I On the Tax System: Normative and Conceptual Questions
  • 1. What Political Philosophy Should Learn from Economics about Taxation / Alan Hamlin
  • 2. Welfarism, Libertarianism, and Fairness in the Economic Approach to Taxation / Marc Fleurbaey
  • 3. Striving for the Middle Ground: Taxation, Justice, and the Status of Private Rights / Geoffrey Brennan
  • 4. Taxing or Taking? Property Rhetoric and the Justice of Taxation / Laura Biron
  • 5. Libertarianism and Taxation / Peter Vallentyne
  • 6. Tax Policy and Fair Inequality / Bertil Tungodden
  • 7. Beggar Your Neighbour (Or Why You Do Want to Pay Your Taxes) / M. G. F. Martin
  • pt. II Tax Policy and Forms of Taxation: Philosophical Issues
  • 8. Case for a Progressive Benefits Tax / Barbara H. Fried
  • 9. Moral Objections to Inheritance Tax / Stuart White
  • 10. Politics of Land Value Taxation / Iain McLean
  • 11. State and Tax Competition: A Normative Perspective / Pefer Dietsch
  • 12. Global Taxation and Accounting Arrangements: Some Normatively Desirable and Feasible Policy Recommendations / Rachel McMaster.