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Taxation in utopia : required sacrifice and the general welfare /

"An interdisciplinary exploration of utopian political philosophy from the neglected perspective of taxation"--

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Morris, Donald, 1945- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Albany : State University of New York Press, 2020.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter One Taxation as a Moral Quest -- Part One: Taxation: The Tail Wags the Dog -- An Experiment in Shared Sacrifice -- Ends and Means -- Taxes as Means -- Critics of Utopia -- Practicality -- Taxation as a Moral Question of Sacrifice -- Part Two: The Construal of Taxation and of Utopia -- The Sinews of Taxation -- Taxes in Eden -- Economists and Taxes -- Pecuniary and Nonpecuniary Taxes -- Beyond Revenue: Defining a Tax -- General Welfare -- Required Sacrifice -- Constructive Taxes -- Summarizing the Sinews of Taxation 
505 8 |a Defining Utopia -- Chapter Two Privacy Deprivation as Taxation -- The Nature and Role of Privacy -- Thomas More (1478-1535): No Spots for Secret Meetings -- Big Brother's Eyes In Nineteen Eighty-four -- H. G. Wells (1866 -1946): Indexing Humanity -- A Right to Privacy -- Indexing Humanity -- A Tax on Excess Privacy -- Zamyatin (1884 -1937): Who Are "they" And Who Are "we"? -- The Spaceship and its Cargo -- The Privacy Tax -- Expectations of Privacy -- The Observer Effect -- Private Communications -- Tempered Expectations -- Chapter Three Taxing Access to Truth -- Part One: Plato and Bacon 
505 8 |a Opaque Government -- Plato (c. 428-c. 348 Bce): The Republic of Lies -- Francis Bacon (1561-1626): The Sacrifice To Science -- Approaching The Mind With Caution -- New Atlantis -- Taxation in Bensalem -- Part Two: Orwell and Godwin -- Totalitarian Methodologies: Orwell (1903-1950) -- History is Bunk in Oceania -- Naming the Problem -- William Godwin (1756-1836): Anarchist Tax Policy -- Groupthink -- Private Judgment and Public Deliberation -- Fallibilism -- Godwin's Attack on Pecuniary Taxation -- Digression on Capitalism, Education, and Access to Truth -- Government's Hidden Evils 
505 8 |a The "euthanasia of Government" -- Chapter Four Taxation by Required Work or Occupation -- Part One: Plato and More -- Work and Inequality -- Matching Specialized Abilities to Society's Needs -- Plato (c. 428-c. 348 Bce): The Ideal Job in the Republic -- Plato's Solution -- Ruler Succession -- Educating the Guardians -- Plato's Progressive Tax Regime -- Thomas More (1478-1535): The Common Obligation of Common Daily Toil -- The Allocation of Goods -- The Allotment of Labor -- The Six-hour Workday -- Occupational Choice -- Taxation and Surplus Labor -- Part Two: Bellamy, Gilman, Wells, and Skinner 
505 8 |a Edward Bellamy (1850-1898): The Industrial Army -- Required Labor -- The Women's Army -- Incentive for Effort -- Invalid Corps -- Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935): Half the Human Race Is Denied Free Productive Expression -- Nurturing Variety -- Scientific Approach to Work -- Tax on Gender -- H. G. Wells (1866-1946): Labor Laws and the Insult of Charity -- Opportunity for Advancement -- Unskilled Labor Tax -- B. F. Skinner (1904-1990): We Have Created Leisure Without Slavery -- The Sources of Control -- Required Work Tax -- Part Three: Saint-simon and Campanella 
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