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.