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Parr, Tom (2022) Automation, unemployment, and taxation. Social Theory and Practice, 48 (2). pp. 357-378. doi:10.5840/soctheorpract202231159 ISSN 0037-802X.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.5840/soctheorpract202231159
Abstract
Automation can bring the risk of technological unemployment, as employees are replaced by machines that can carry out the same or similar work at a fraction of the cost. Some believe that the appropriate response is to tax automation. In this paper, I explore the justifiability of view, maintaining that we can embrace automation so long as we compensate those employees whose livelihoods are destroyed by this process by creating new opportunities for employment. My contribution in this paper is important not only because I develop a theoretical framework that we can use to resolve this urgent policy dispute—a dispute that has been discussed extensively by labour economists, tax lawyers, and policymakers, but largely neglected by political philosophers—but also because my analysis sheds lights on a wider range of controversies relating to the moral and political importance of unemployment.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor | ||||||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies | ||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Unemployment, Labor supply -- Effect of automation on, Labor supply -- Effect of technological innovations on, Technological innovations -- Economic aspects, Automation, Income tax, Labor economics | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Social Theory and Practice | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Florida State University Department of Philosophy | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 0037-802X | ||||||||
| Official Date: | April 2022 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | 48 | ||||||||
| Number: | 2 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 357-378 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.5840/soctheorpract202231159 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 5 January 2021 | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 7 January 2021 | ||||||||
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