Political Philosophy & Taxation
Political Philosophy & Taxation:An Interdisciplinary Conference
Location: Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre, South Wing, Main Quadrangle, University College London
Organizers:
Martin O’Neill (MANCEPT, Politics, University of Manchester) martin.oneill [AT] manchester.ac.uk
Shepley Orr (Centre for Philosophy, Justice and Health, UCL) s.orr [AT] ucl.ac.uk
Conference Description:
This conference on Political Philosophy and Taxation will address the issue of how the activities of the state should best be funded. The conference will bring together a number of leading political philosophers, as well as a number of other scholars working at the intersection of political philosophy with economics, law and social policy. It will further the state of current research on taxation within political philosophy, as well as facilitating productive interdisciplinary dialogue on the topic.
Speakers:
Laura Biron (Philosophy, University of Cambridge)
‘Taxing or Taking? Property Rhetoric and the Justice of Taxation’
Geoffrey Brennan (Philosophy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; and Social and Political Theory, Research School of the Social Sciences, Australian National University)
‘Taxation and Political Philosophy: Murphy and Nagel Revisited’
Alexander Cappelen and Bertil Tungodden (Economics, Centre for Ethics and Economics, Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration)
‘Rich Meets Poor: An International Experiment of Redistribution’
Marc Fleurbaey (Economics, Université Paris Descartes V; Lachmann Fellow, LSE)
‘Taxation and Fairness’
Judith Freedman (KPMG Professor of Tax Law, University of Oxford)
‘Is Tax Avoidance “Fair”?’
Axel Gosseries (Economics & Philosophy, Université Catholique de Louvain)
‘Why Tax and Transfer is Not Enough’
Alan Hamlin (Manchester Centre for Political Theory, University of Manchester)
‘Three (or Four) Perspectives on Tax Structure’
Richard Murphy (Tax Justice Network; Tax Research LLP)
‘Searching for the Secrecy Space: Finding the True Nature of Offshore’
Martin O’Neill (Manchester Centre for Political Theory, University of Manchester)
‘Corporate Taxation, Personal Taxation and Social Justice’
Shepley Orr (Centre for Philosophy, Justice and Health, UCL)
‘Consent Theory and Kaldor-Hicks Compensation Tests’
David Williams (KPMG Tax Business School)
‘Tax and Corporate Social Responsibility’
Registered Participants
Dave Banks
Enrico Biale
Laura Biron
Alex Brown
Geoffrey Brennan
Joan Costa-Font
Christopher Deeming
Marc Fleurbaey
Judith Freedman
Zoe Gannon
Natalie Gold
Axel Gosseries
Alan Hamlin
Dave Holly
Omar Kahn
Stewart Lansley
Martin McIvor
Richard Murphy
Adam Oliver
Martin O'Neill
Shepley Orr
Raj Sehgal
Mark Bowler Smith
Adam Swift
Bertil Tungodden
Laura Valentini
David Williams
Jonathan Wolff
*The conference is free and open to all, but we would be grateful if participants would register ahead of time by e-mailing Shepley Orr at: s.orr@ucl.ac.uk. This event has been organized in conjunction with the sponsored events series of the SAS Institute of Philosophy, and the OUP/LSE one-day seminar on Marc Fleurbaery’s book Freedom, Responsibility and Welfare.
*Image: ‘Matthew the Tax Collector’
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucesswo/tax.htm