The Myth of Ownership: Taxes and Justice - Rilegato

Murphy, Liam B.; Nagel, Thomas

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ISBN 10: 0195150163 ISBN 13: 9780195150162

Casa editrice: Oxford Univ Pr, 2002

Riassunto

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 particular regime. Taking up ethical issues about individual liberty, interpersonal obligation, and both collective and personal responsibility, Murphy and Nagel force us to reconsider how our tax policy shapes our system of property rights.

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L'autore:

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

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Book by Murphy Liam Nagel Thomas

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• Editore: Oxford Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0195150163
• ISBN 13: 9780195150162
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 228