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The Myth of Ownership: Taxes and Justice

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The Myth of Ownership: Taxes and Justice - Murphy, Liam, and Nagel, Thomas
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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, ...

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The Myth of Ownership: Taxes and Justice 2004, Oxford University Press, USA, New York, NY

ISBN-13: 9780195176568

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The Myth of Ownership: Taxes and Justice 2002, Oxford University Press, USA, Oxford, England

ISBN-13: 9780195150162

Hardcover