Philosophical Explorations of Justice and Taxation

List of Contributors .- Outlining the Field of Tax Justice; Helmut P. Gaisbauer, Gottfried Schweiger and Clemens Sedmak.- Section I: Grounding Taxation.- Fiscal Justice and Justified Trust; Clemens Sedmak &and Helmut P. Gaisbauer.- Taxation and the Duty to Alleviate Poverty; Gottfried Schweiger.- Justice, Equality and Taxation; Dietmar von der Pfordten.- 'You did not build that road' - Reciprocity, Benefits, Opportunities and Taxing the Extremely Rich; Bruno Verbeek.- The Challenge of Tax Avoidance for Social Justice in Taxation; Benjamin Alarie.- Section II: Justifying different Types of Taxation.- Why Taxing Consumption? Justifications, Objections and Social Cooperation; Xavier Landes.- Egalitarianism and Consumption Tax; Daniel Halliday.- Ethical Taxation: Progressivity, Efficiency and Hourly Averaging; Douglas Bamford.- Why do the Public Oppose Inheritance Taxes?; Rajiv Prabhakar.- The Role of Expressive versus Instrumental Preferences in U.S. Attitudes toward Taxation and Redistribution; Kirk Stark.- Section III: International and Global Taxation.- What Burden should Fiscal Policy Bear in Fighting Global Injustice?; Gillian Brock.- A Global Luxuries Tax; Timothy Mawe and Vittorio Bufacchi.- Taxation: Its Justification and Application to Global Contexts; Teppo Eskelinen and Arto Laitinen.

Prof. Clemens Sedmak wurde 1971 in Bad Ischl geboren und studierte Theologie, Philosophie, Christliche Philosophie und Sozialwissenschaften in Innsbruck, Linz, New York und Zürich. Seit 2005 hat er den Lehrstuhl für Sozialethik am King's College London (Universität London) inne. Er leitet außerdem das Zentrum für Ethik und Armutsforschung der Universität Salzburg. Clemens Sedmak lebt mit seiner Frau und seinen drei Kindern in Seekirchen am Wallersee.