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Do the Poor Really Pay for the Higher Education of the Rich?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 April 2010

Rolf George
Rolf George
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University of Waterloo
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In the last several years, ethicists have discussed problems of medical, professional, business and environmental ethics with much animation, and political philosophers have shown more interest than before in details of public policy. Yet this “applied turn,” as it has been called, has not swept much philosophical attention in the direction of taxation and public finance, though they offer numerous conceptual challenges. Nor have these subjects engaged the attention of those in the critical thinking business, though distortions in representing them are common enough.

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Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review / Revue canadienne de philosophie , Volume 30 , Issue 3: Applied Ethics , Summer 1991 , pp. 297 - 308
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Copyright © Canadian Philosophical Association 1991

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