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"An interdisciplinary exploration of utopian political philosophy from the neglected perspective of taxation"--.

• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Chapter One Taxation as a Moral Quest
  • Part One: Taxation: The Tail Wags the Dog
    • An Experiment in Shared Sacrifice
    • Ends and Means
      • Taxes as Means
      • Critics of Utopia
    • Practicality
    • Taxation as a Moral Question of Sacrifice
  • Part Two: The Construal of Taxation and of Utopia
    • The Sinews of Taxation
      • Taxes in Eden
      • Economists and Taxes
      • Pecuniary and Nonpecuniary Taxes
    • Beyond Revenue: Defining a Tax
      • General Welfare
      • Required Sacrifice
      • Constructive Taxes
      • Summarizing the Sinews of Taxation
    • Defining Utopia
• Chapter Two Privacy Deprivation as Taxation
  • The Nature and Role of Privacy
  • Thomas More (1478–1535): No Spots for Secret Meetings
  • Big Brother’s Eyes In Nineteen Eighty-four
  • H. G. Wells (1866 –1946): Indexing Humanity
    • A Right to Privacy
    • Indexing Humanity
    • A Tax on Excess Privacy
  • Zamyatin (1884 –1937): Who Are “they” And Who Are “we”?
    • The Spaceship and its Cargo
    • The Privacy Tax
  • Expectations of Privacy
    • The Observer Effect
    • Private Communications
    • Tempered Expectations
• Chapter Three Taxing Access to Truth
  • Part One: Plato and Bacon
    • Opaque Government
    • Plato (c. 428–c. 348 Bce): The Republic of Lies
    • Francis Bacon (1561–1626): The Sacrifice To Science
      • Approaching The Mind With Caution
      • New Atlantis
      • Taxation in Bensalem
  • Part Two: Orwell and Godwin
    • Totalitarian Methodologies: Orwell (1903–1950)
      • History is Bunk in Oceania
      • Naming the Problem
    • William Godwin (1756–1836): Anarchist Tax Policy
      • Groupthink
      • Private Judgment and Public Deliberation
      • Fallibilism
      • Godwin’s Attack on Pecuniary Taxation
      • Digression on Capitalism, Education, and Access to Truth
      • Government’s Hidden Evils
      • The “euthanasia of Government”
• Chapter Four Taxation by Required Work or Occupation
  • Part One: Plato and More
    • Work and Inequality
    • Matching Specialized Abilities to Society’s Needs
    • Plato (c. 428–c. 348 Bce): The Ideal Job in the Republic
      • Plato’s Solution
      • Ruler Succession
      • Educating the Guardians
      • Plato’s Progressive Tax Regime
    • Thomas More (1478–1535): The Common Obligation of Common Daily Toil
      • The Allocation of Goods
      • The Allotment of Labor
      • The Six-hour Workday
      • Occupational Choice
      • Taxation and Surplus Labor
  • Part Two: Bellamy, Gilman, Wells, and Skinner
    • Edward Bellamy (1850–1898): The Industrial Army
      • Required Labor
      • The Women’s Army
      • Incentive for Effort
      • Invalid Corps
    • Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860–1935): Half the Human Race Is Denied Free Productive Expression
      • Nurturing Variety
      • Scientific Approach to Work
      • Tax on Gender
    • H. G. Wells (1866–1946): Labor Laws and the Insult of Charity
      • Opportunity for Advancement
      • Unskilled Labor Tax
    • B. F. Skinner (1904–1990): We Have Created Leisure Without Slavery
      • The Sources of Control
      • Required Work Tax
  • Part Three: Saint-simon and Campanella
    • Henri Saint-simon (1760–1825): The Human Spirit Follows a Predetermined Course
      • Politics and Science
      • Progress
      • Improvement of Civilization
      • Collective Liberty
      • Extolling Inequality
      • The Structure of Government
      • The Power to Tax
    • Tommaso Campanella (1568–1639): Assigned Labor in the City of the Sun
      • Scientific Education for Work
      • Enabling the Workforce
• Chapter Five Taxing the Family: Marriage, Childrearing, and Eugenics
  • Part One: Plato, More, Bacon, Wells, and Le Guin
    • Marriage Restrictions
      • Plato (c. 428–c. 348 Bce): The Eugenic Tax on Breeding
      • Thomas More (1478–1535): “confinement to a Single Partner”
    • Francis Bacon (1561–1626): Marriage Except for the Wise
      • Laws Touching Marriage
      • Eugenic Paradox of Marriage
    • H. G. Wells (1866–1946): Motherhood as a Service to the State
      • Marriage License
      • Marginalized Citizens
    • Le Guin (1929–2018): Anarchism and the Tax-free Family in the Dispossessed
      • Anarchy—responsibility as Freedom
      • Partnerships
  • Part Two: Owen and Gilman
    • Robert Owen (1771–1858): The Tax on Childrearing
      • Owen And Character Formation
      • Redirecting Society
      • Experimental Evidence
      • A New Social Order
      • Owen’s Constructive Tax System
      • Revolutionizing the Pecuniary Tax System
    • Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860–1935): Motherhood and Eugenics in Herland
      • Motherhood as the Highest Service
      • The Obsolescence of Egoism
      • Eugenic Sacrifice of Egoism
      • Eugenics and Access to Truth
  • Part Three: Skinner, Eugenic Tax Procedures
    • B. F. Skinner (1904–1990): Eliminating the Meaner Emotions in Walden Two
      • Turning a Blind Eye to Control of Human Behavior
      • Behavioral Technology Using Operant Conditioning
      • Abandoning Punishment
      • Autonomous Man
      • Culture and Education in Walden Two
      • The Constructive Taxation of Control
      • Child Training
      • Restructuring the Family: The Constructive Tax
      • Government and The Walden Code
    • Eugenic Tax Procedures: Campanella, Bellamy, Zamyatin, Huxley
      • The City of the Sun
      • Herbert Spencer
      • Gender Equality and Eugenics in Bellamy’s Looking Backward
      • Bellamy’s Constructive Tax on Inherited Depravity
      • Quality Control in Zamyatin’s We
      • Huxley’s Brave New Family
• Chapter Six Taxation and Land Proprietorship
  • Part One: Harrington, Godwin, and Owen
    • The Land Question
      • Rival Worldviews
      • Private Property
      • Private vs. Common Ownership
      • The Disputants
    • James Harrington (1611–1677): Inheritance Tax in Oceana
    • William Godwin (1756–1836): Anarchy and Private Property
    • Robert Owen (1771–1858): Peaceful Revolution
  • Part Two: George, Tolstoy, Wells, and Nozick
    • Henry George (1839–1897): Progress, Land, and Poverty
      • Why Progress Produces Poverty
      • Causes of Increasing Land Rents
      • Ending Private Land Ownership
      • Single Tax on Land Rents
      • Economic Reformer
    • Tolstoy (1828–1910): A Landowner’s Struggle with the Land Problem
      • Resurrection
      • Struggling with the Land Problem
      • Resolving the Land Problem
    • Wells (1866–1946): The Land Question in a Modern Utopia
      • Ownership for Initiative
      • Land Zoning
    • Robert Nozick (1938–2002): Entitlement Theory
      • Entitlement Theory
      • Rectification and Compensation
• Chapter Seven Taxation Purged from Utopia
  • Part One: Ayn Rand (1905–1982): Atlas Shrugged
    • Disparate Social Systems
    • Rand’s Four Utopias
      • The Utopia of Need
      • Constructive Taxes in the Collapsing Utopia of Need
      • The Colorado Colony
      • Taxes in the Colorado Colony
      • The Fourth Utopia
    • Rand’s “tax” System
      • Voluntary Taxes
      • Rand’s Land Tax
  • Part Two: Robert Nozick (1938–2002): Utopia Of Utopias
    • The Most Extensive State that Can Be Justified
    • The Developing State: The First Four Stages
    • The Fifth Stage
    • Taxes, Forced Labor, and the Minimal State
      • Voluntary Payments
      • Taxation as Forced Labor
      • Digression: The Ambiguity of Required Work vs. Forced Labor
      • Voluntary Taxation
      • Redistribution: Its Two Forms
      • Nozick’s Constructive Tax on Land Proprietorship
    • Utopia: The Minimal State Framework
    • Taxation In Nozick’s Utopia of Utopias
      • Taxation by the Communities
      • Taxation in the Utopia of Utopias
    • In Closing
• Bibliography
• Index