The core of the book consists of a selection of papers presented at an international workshop where researchers from a variety of fields and countries discussed the connections between inherited wealth, justice and equality. The volume is complemented by a few other papers commissioned by the editors. The contributions cover historical, political, philosophical, sociological and economic aspects.
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 Vitorias De indis Virpi Mäkinen
3.
Inheritance and Bequest in Lockean Rights Theory Robert Lamb
4. Equal
Inheritance and Equal Shares: A Reconsideration of Some 19th 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 André 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
Guido Errygers is Professor and Chair at the Department of Economics, University of Antwerp, Belgium.
John Cunliffe is Associate Fellow at the Department of Politics and International Studies, (PAIS), University of Warwick, UK