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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"--
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Albany :
State University of New York Press,
2020.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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