Liam Murphy

The Myth of Ownership: Taxes and Justice

Buch

In a capitalist economy, taxes are the most important instrument by which the political system puts into practice a conception of economic and distributive justice. Taxes arouse strong passions, fueled not only by conflicts of economic self-interest, but by conflicting ideas of fairness. Taking as a guiding principle the conventional nature of private property, Murphy and Nagel show how taxes can only be evaluated as part of the overall system of property rights that they help to create. Justice or injustice in taxation, they argue, can only mean justice or injustice in the system of property rights and entitlements that result from a particu… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Nagel, Thomas

ISBN: 978-0-19-517656-8
EAN: 9780195176568
Produktnummer: 22674601
Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2004
Seitenangabe: 228 S.
Masse: H20.7 cm x B16.4 cm x D1.9 cm 299 g
Gewicht: 299

Über den Autor

Liam Murphy teaches law and philosophy at New York University. He is the author of Moral Demands in Nonideal Theory. Thomas Nagel teaches law and philosophy at New York University. He is the author of Moral Questions, Equality and Partiality, and The Last Word.