What Is The Principle Of Fairness
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The Principle of Fairness and Political Obligation
Author: George Klosko
language: en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date: 2004-01-26
In The Principle of Fairness and Political Obligation, George Klosko presents the first book-length treatment of political obligation grounded in the premises of liberal political theory. In this now-classic work, he clearly and systematically formulates what others thought impossible-a principle of fairness that specifies a set of conditions which grounds existing political obligations and bridges the gap between the abstract accounts of political principles and the actual beliefs of political actors. Brought up-to-date with a new introduction, this new edition will be of great interest to all interested in political thought.
Principles of tax policy
Author: Great Britain: Parliament: House of Commons: Treasury Committee
language: en
Publisher: The Stationery Office
Release Date: 2011-03-15
The Treasury Committee welcomes the Government's commitment to a new approach to tax policy making, designed to support its ambition for a more predictable, stable and simple system. But the Government has not done enough to set out the principles underlying that policy. The Committee attempts to identify these principles and considers how tax policy can best support growth. A tax system which is theoretically structured to promote growth will not succeed if businesses are faced with constant change, or if the inefficiency of collection outweighs any benefits. The report warns that a tax system which is felt to be fundamentally unfair will quickly lose political support. It also notes that the scope for tax arbitrage has grown substantially over the last quarter of a century and globalisation is likely to increase it further. A tax system which is not competitive by international standards will not support growth. Competitiveness is also not a simple matter of tax rates, although they have a bearing, but of the stability of the system as a whole. The report recommends that tax policy should be measured by reference to the following principles. Tax policy should: be fair; support growth and encourage competition; provide certainty; provide stability; be practicable, so that a person's tax liability should be easy to calculate and straightforward and cheap to collect; be coherent - new provisions should complement the existing tax system, not conflict with it.
Justice as Fairness
Author: John Rawls
language: en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date: 2001-05-16
This book originated as lectures for a course on political philosophy that Rawls taught regularly at Harvard in the 1980s. In time the lectures became a restatement of his theory of justice as fairness, revised in light of his more recent papers and his treatise Political Liberalism (1993). As Rawls writes in the preface, the restatement presents "in one place an account of justice as fairness as I now see it, drawing on all [my previous] works." He offers a broad overview of his main lines of thought and also explores specific issues never before addressed in any of his writings. Rawls is well aware that since the publication of A Theory of Justice in 1971, American society has moved farther away from the idea of justice as fairness. Yet his ideas retain their power and relevance to debates in a pluralistic society about the meaning and theoretical viability of liberalism. This book demonstrates that moral clarity can be achieved even when a collective commitment to justice is uncertain.