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.

The Myth of Ownership: Taxes and Justice

Business & Money

Murphy, Liam

Nagel, Thomas

Economics

Oxford University Press

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.

What Makes Law: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Law (Cambridge Introductions to Philosophy and Law)

This book offers an advanced introduction to central questions in legal philosophy. What factors determine the content of the law in force? What makes a normative system a legal system? How does law beyond the state differ from domestic law? What kind of moral force does law have? These are all questions about the nature of law. The most important existing views are introduced, but the aim is not to survey the existing literature. Rather, this book introduces the subject by stepping back from the fray to sketch the big picture, to show just what is at stake in these old debates. Legal philosophy has become somewhat arid and inward looking. In part this is because the disagreement between the main camps on the important questions is apparently intractable. The main aim of the book is to suggest both a diagnosis and a proper practical response to this situation of intractable disagreement about questions that do matter.

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Cambridge University Press

The Big Red Bug

Children's Books

Animals

Liam Murphy

My Grandpa Star (The Magic of Life Series)

Literature & Fiction

This book looks at why different areas of a city can all have high levels of long-term unemployment, but for different reasons. In seeking to uncover the different local constructions of unemployment this book makes a significant contribution to our understanding of why people become, and remain unemployed. Providing a wide-ranging and a challenging theoretical overview, the book then adopts a unique multi-stranded methodological approach to the issue of local pockets of high long-term unemployment. Focusing on Bradford in West Yorkshire, the book examines a multi-cultural inner city area, a "white" outer estate and a satellite town. Using a skills survey, community discussion panel and interviews with many keen actors, the study is able to identify both general and specific labour market barriers which lead to very different local geographies of unemployment. The book finishes with suggestions as to how the institutions and policies ostensibly responding to long-term unemployment could be better targeted to local needs.

Local Geographies of Unemployment: Long Term Unemployment in Areas of Local Deprivation

Johnson, Steve

Thomas, Kevin

Avebury

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