Inherited wealth, justice and equality

Inherited wealth, justice and equality [electronic resource] / edited by John Cunliffe and Guido Erreygers. - London ; New York : Routledge, 2013. - xix, 237 p. : ill. - Routledge frontiers of political economy ; 165 . - Routledge frontiers of political economy ; 165. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. The debates about inherited wealth and its taxation : an introductory essay / John Cunliffe, Guido Erreygers and Andrew Reeve -- 2. Dominion rights of the aboriginals in Francisco de Vitoria's De indis / Virpi Máeakinen -- 3. Inheritance and bequest in Lockean rights theory / Robert Lamb -- 4. Equal inheritance and equal shares : a reconsideration of some nineteenth-century reform proposals / John Cunliffe and Guido Erreygers -- 5. Are we still modern? : inheritance law and the broken promise of the Enlightenment / Jens Beckert -- 6. Entailed citizenship / Ayelet Shachar and Ran Hirschl -- 7. Equal inheritance : an anti-perfectionist view / Matthew Clayton -- 8. Favouring wealth intergenerational mobility by increasing the inheritance tax : putting the case for France / Luc Arrondel and Andrãae Masson -- 9. Does the financial crisis create opportunities for wealth taxation? / Rajiv Prabhakar -- 10. The economics of wealth transfer taxation / Helmuth Cremer and Pierre Pestieau -- 11. Inheritance taxation, notions of legitimacy and Bourdieu / Ann Mumford -- 12. From trustees to wealth managers / Brooke Harrington -- 13. To give or not to give? : inter vivos gifts of mobile property and donor profile before and after the 2004 Flemish Gift Tax Reform / Carine Smolders.




Mode of access: World Wide Web.

9780203077993 (e-book : PDF)


Inheritance and succession.
Wealth--Social aspects.
Equality.
Social justice.


Electronic books.