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Impuestos Y Justicia Distributiva. Una Revisión Normativa De La Propuesta De Murphy Y Nagel, Cristian Pérez Muñoz Dec 2007

Impuestos Y Justicia Distributiva. Una Revisión Normativa De La Propuesta De Murphy Y Nagel, Cristian Pérez Muñoz

Cristian Pérez Muñoz

Recently, Liam Murphy and Thomas Nagel have presented an interesting and controversial proposal to evaluate normatively a tax system (Murphy y Nagel 2001, 2002; Murphy 2005a, 2005b). Basically, they argue that a tax scheme will be just only if it finds its place in a just set of economic and legal institutions. In this work I analyze their proposal. Firstly, I review and present their main ideas. Secondly, I examine some institutional consequences that would suppose the application of their proposal in order to choose a specific tax system. Fundamentally, in this section I evaluate the proposal of Negative Income …


¿Garantías Del Ingreso Para Garantizar El Trabajo?, Cristian Pérez Muñoz, José Luis Rey Sep 2007

¿Garantías Del Ingreso Para Garantizar El Trabajo?, Cristian Pérez Muñoz, José Luis Rey

Cristian Pérez Muñoz

In this paper we offer a normative evaluation about the Universal Basic Income proposal (UBI) face to the most important justifications of “guarantee job” and “right to work” proposals. Firstly, we present the main arguments that justify a UBI. secondly, we examine some of the most relevant reasons to believe that a UBI can be a desirable redistributive plan face to the current job guarantee policies. thirdly, we analyse the idea that an unconditional and universal income redistribution policy violates the reciprocity principle. in this sense, we argue that a redistributive policy like UBI is a better way to achieve …