The enlightenment and influence of social contract theory on taxation

Hans Gribnau; Jane Frecknall-Hughes

doi:10.1007/978-981-19-1092-0_2

The enlightenment and influence of social contract theory on taxation

Hans Gribnau, Jane Frecknall-Hughes

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Great minds change our views on state and society. But how do the political and social ideas of famous philosophers impact their own ideas about the justification of taxation and the distribution of the tax burden? In this paper Jane Frecknall-Hughes and I show how Hobbes, Locke, Hume, Montesquieu, Rousseau, Paine, the Federalists and Anti-Federalists gradually transformed western views on taxation, tax justice and tax policy.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Political philosophy and taxation
Subtitle of host publication	A history from the enlightenment to the present
Editors	Robert van Brederode
Publisher	Springer
Chapter	2
Pages	51-101
Number of pages	51
ISBN (Electronic)	978-981-19-1092-0
ISBN (Print)	978-981-19-1091-3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-1092-0_2
Publication status	Published - Jun 2022

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