Political Philosophy and Taxation

Sponsored by the ESRC Preference Elicitation Group and the UCL Department of Philosophy

Feb 12:Venue: Drayton Suite, Friends House, Euston Road, London

Feb 13: Venue: South Wing Committee Room, Main Quad of UCL, Gower St., London

Day 1: Monday, February 12 2007

Drayton Suite, Friends House, Euston Road, London (directions and map)

9:30 Coffee

10:00 Julian Le Grand, Department of Social Policy, LSE

“Hypothecation: A Triumph of Hope over Analysis?”

11:15 Shepley Orr, Civil and Environmental Engineering, UCL

“Procedural Justice, Motivational Crowding and Hypothecated Taxation” link

12.30 Lunch

1:30 Robert Sugden, Economics, University of East Anglia

“Choosing How One's Tax Payments are Spent: A Small Step towards

Voluntary Taxation” link

2:45 Barbara Fried, Law, Stanford

“The Market for Taxes and Public Goods: A New Look at

Benefit Taxation”

4.00 Coffee

4:15 Michael Jones-Lee, Economics, Newcastle

"Age, Taxation and the Valuation of Safety"

5:30 Close

Day 2: Tuesday, February 13 2007

South Wing Committee Room, Main Quad of UCL, Gower St., London (map)

9:30 Coffee

10:00 Peter Vallentyne, Philosophy, University of Missouri-Columbia

“A Left-Libertarian Theory of Taxation”

11:15 Stuart White, Politics and Jesus College, Oxford

“Objections to Inheritance Tax”

12.30 Lunch

1:30 Jo Wolff, Philosophy, UCL

“The Ethics of Corporate Taxation”

2:45 Martin O’Neill, Philosophy and St. John’s College, Cambridge

“Taking Conventionalism Seriously: Corporations, Taxation, and

Social Justice”

4:00 Coffee

4:15 Veronique Munoz-Darde and Michael Martin, Philosophy, UCL

"Tax and Charity”

5:30 Close

To register contact s.orr@ucl.ac.uk (no conference charge)