Automation, unemployment, and taxation

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• dc.contributor.author Parr, Tom
• dc.date.accessioned 2022-03-04T07:11:21Z
• dc.date.available 2022-03-04T07:11:21Z
• dc.date.issued 2022
• dc.description.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.
• dc.description.sponsorship Work on this article received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement 890434.
• dc.format.mimetype application/pdf
• dc.identifier.citation Parr T. Automation, unemployment, and taxation. Social Theory and Practice. 2022 Apr;48(2):357-78. DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2022.112863
• dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2022.112863
• dc.identifier.issn 0037-802X
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/52624
• dc.language.iso eng
• dc.publisher Florida State University Department of Philosophy - Philosophy Documentation Center
• dc.relation.ispartof Social Theory and Practice. 2022 Apr;48(2):357-78
• dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/890434
• dc.rights © Florida State University Department of Philosophy - Philosophy Documentation Center
• dc.rights.accessRights info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
• dc.subject.keyword Unemployment
• dc.subject.keyword Technological change
• dc.subject.keyword Labour economics
• dc.subject.keyword Social justice
• dc.subject.keyword Taxation
• dc.title Automation, unemployment, and taxation
• dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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