PANEL 1 - Predistribution, Property-Owning Democracy and Taxation
Convenors: Roberto Merrill, António Baptista and Pedro Silva
All inquiries about the panel should be sent to [email protected], [email protected] or [email protected].
The participants in this panel will include Stuart White and Karl Widerquist.
The surge in inequalities of wealth and income in OECD countries, among other jurisdictions, helps to explain the importance of discussing Predistribution, Property-Owning Democracy and Taxation. In “Capital and Ideology”, Thomas Piketty writes that when the share of income before taxes in the U.S. accruing to the “bottom 50 percent is nearly halved in the space of just forty years and the share going to the top 1 percent is doubled, it is illusory to think that the change can be compensated simply by ex post redistribution”. It is essential, the thought goes, to also carry out large-scale reforms in the legal, fiscal and educational system.
The pertinence of predistribution and the diffusion of property ownership is reinforced by the possibility that inegalitarian movements may reverse fiscal, redistributive changes with greater ease than they would be able to unravel a new post-economic settlement that institutionally entrenches wider access to income and wealth.
This also invites the question of how to design a tax system that promotes egalitarian aims and that coheres with a predistributive, property-owning democratic agenda. How should a just society mix wealth, income, corporate income and inheritance taxation? Should the proceeds of a wealth tax be used in favour of a capital endowment for all of its citizens? Should it instead prop up the desperately underfund care sector?
We want this panel to be broad and ecumenical in its understanding of these concepts as the lines that divide them are tenuous; no-one should refrain from submitting a paper because of uncertainty as to whether her topic falls within predistribution as opposed to redistribution!
If you want to apply, please submit an abstract, of 400-500 words along with five keywords, of your paper prepared for peer review by 17 April 2022. We will respond by 28 April 2022. All proposals must be submitted online through our website using the Abstract submission Form (please, click “Submit Abstract” and fill the form).
All inquiries about the panel should be sent to [email protected], [email protected] or [email protected].
The participants in this panel will include Stuart White and Karl Widerquist.
The surge in inequalities of wealth and income in OECD countries, among other jurisdictions, helps to explain the importance of discussing Predistribution, Property-Owning Democracy and Taxation. In “Capital and Ideology”, Thomas Piketty writes that when the share of income before taxes in the U.S. accruing to the “bottom 50 percent is nearly halved in the space of just forty years and the share going to the top 1 percent is doubled, it is illusory to think that the change can be compensated simply by ex post redistribution”. It is essential, the thought goes, to also carry out large-scale reforms in the legal, fiscal and educational system.
The pertinence of predistribution and the diffusion of property ownership is reinforced by the possibility that inegalitarian movements may reverse fiscal, redistributive changes with greater ease than they would be able to unravel a new post-economic settlement that institutionally entrenches wider access to income and wealth.
This also invites the question of how to design a tax system that promotes egalitarian aims and that coheres with a predistributive, property-owning democratic agenda. How should a just society mix wealth, income, corporate income and inheritance taxation? Should the proceeds of a wealth tax be used in favour of a capital endowment for all of its citizens? Should it instead prop up the desperately underfund care sector?
We want this panel to be broad and ecumenical in its understanding of these concepts as the lines that divide them are tenuous; no-one should refrain from submitting a paper because of uncertainty as to whether her topic falls within predistribution as opposed to redistribution!
If you want to apply, please submit an abstract, of 400-500 words along with five keywords, of your paper prepared for peer review by 17 April 2022. We will respond by 28 April 2022. All proposals must be submitted online through our website using the Abstract submission Form (please, click “Submit Abstract” and fill the form).