The UCL Centre for
Philosophy, Justice and Health
with the financial
support of the Aristotelian Society, The Mind Association,
and the
Society for Applied Philosophy, presents:
Political
Philosophy & Taxation:
An Interdisciplinary Conference
11-12 September 2008, UCL
UPDATE: This conference has now taken place. It was
attended by policy makers and members of think tanks, economists working in
government departments, finance journalists, and academics from social policy,
philosophy, political science and economics.
The organizers are now preparing an edited book based on the papers
presented at this conference and the papers given at a previous conference on political
philosophy and taxation.
We hope to be adding the powerpoint presentations
from the conferences in the meantime as they are made available to us.
Location:
Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre, South Wing, Main
Quadrangle,
Organizers: Martin O’Neill (MANCEPT,
Politics,
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.
Conference Schedule
Thursday, September 11, 2008
10:00-10:30 Coffee
10:30am Martin
O’Neill (
‘Corporate Taxation, Personal
Taxation and Social Justice’
11:30am Judith
Freedman (KPMG Professor of Tax Law,
‘Is Tax Avoidance “Fair”?’
12:30-1:30pm Lunch
1:30pm David
Williams (
‘Tax and Corporate Social
Responsibility’
2:30pm Richard
Murphy (Tax Justice Network; Tax Research LLP)
‘Searching for the Secrecy Space: Finding the True Nature of Offshore’
3:30-4pm Coffee
4pm Marc
Fleurbaey (Economics, Université Paris Descartes V; Lachman Fellow,
Department of Philosophy, LSE)
‘Taxation and Fairness’
5pm Axel Gosseries (Economics
& Philosophy, Université Catholique de Louvain)
‘Why Tax and Transfer is Not Enough’
6pm Close
Friday, September 12, 2008
10:00-10:30 Coffee
10:30am Alan
Hamlin (Manchester Centre for Political Theory,
University of Manchester)
‘Three
(or Four) Perspectives on Tax Structure’
11:30am Shepley
Orr (Centre for Philosophy, Justice and Health, UCL)
‘Consent Theory and Kaldor-Hicks
Compensation Tests’
12:30-1:30pm Lunch
1:30pm Laura
Biron (Philosophy, University of Cambridge)
‘Taxing or Taking? Property Rhetoric and the Justice of Taxation’
2:30 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’
3:30-4pm Coffee
4pm 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’
5pm General
Discussion
6pm Close
Registered
Participants
Dave Banks
Enrico Biale
Laura Biron
Carola
Black-Colditz
Gillian Brock
Alex Brown
Geoffrey Brennan
Aditya
Chakrobortty
Joan Costa-Font
Frank Cowell
Christopher
Deeming
Preetum Domah
Marc Fleurbaey
Judith Freedman
Zoe Gannon
Natalie Gold
Robert E. Goodin
Axel Gosseries
Edward Hall
Mark Hannam
Peter Hawkins
Alan Hamlin
Dave Holly
Vanessa Houlder
Francois Hudon
George Irvin
Keith Johnston
Omar Kahn
Sabrina
LeBourgeois
Ann Matthars
Ruth McCance
Markus Meinzer
Martin McIvor
Riz Mokal
Richard Murphy
Adam Oliver
Martin O'Neill
Shepley Orr
Alberto
Pompermaier
Howard Reed
Dour Rendle
Thomas Rixen
John Roche
Erik Schokkaert
Adam Swift
Bertil Tungodden
Laura Valentini
Leif Wenar
Gry Wester
Carol Wilcox
David Williams
Jonathan Wolff
Gabriel Wollner
Hadi Zamani
Information on
the first conference on Political Philosophy and Taxation is available here.
*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’