I published a paper in which I try to make a comprehensive ethical analysis of inheritance and gifts taxation. It was on the shelves for a very long time, and encountered a fair number of skeptics, which makes me all the more happy that it got published in PPE. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
This paper provides a defence of a lifetime limit on how much a person can receive in the form of gifts and inheritances, that is, a person's accessions. I argu...
@dicktimmer.bsky.social - this is the paper I mentioned last week.
On the methodological front, large agree, but also slightly disagree, with @jowolff.bsky.social in this paper. :)
Just read very quickly. Brilliant paper, very stimulating. I now wonder, though, whether popular opposition assumes, more strongly, that the family is ‘the subject of possession’. Do your arguments apply to spouses? Some people even think they are deserving on the basis of parents’ achievements.