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Is Inheritance Legitimate?

Author : Guido Erreygers

Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media

Page : 245 pages

File Size : 41,69 MB

Release : 2013-03-09

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 3662033437

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The debate on inheritance and inheritance taxation has always been linked with the " efficiency versus equity issue". Some consider inheritance taxes as highly appropriate means to bring forth more economic equality, especially equality in starting conditions. Others openly doubt the effectiveness of inheritance taxes in this domain, and point out that the negative effects may outweigh the positive. Some go as far as to say that high inheritance taxes threaten fundamental ethical values and should therefore be abolished. In this book both economists and philosophers try to disentangle these and related theoretical issues. It gives an overview of what economists and philosophers have to say on the matter, and confronts and discusses two radically opposed reform proposals.



Inheritance within Rupture

Author : Zhitian Luo

Publisher : BRILL

Page : 489 pages

File Size : 38,73 MB

Release : 2015-01-08

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 9004287663

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In Inheritance within Rupture, Luo Zhitian brings together ten essays to explore the themes of change and continuity, rupture and inheritance from the late Qing through the early Republic (1890s-1940s). Rejecting binaries such as tradition/modernity, conservative/liberal, Luo blurs the divisions between intellectual opponents and clarifies the divergences between scholarly friends. Centering these discussions around some of the most famous intellectual debates in the modern period, Luo challenges our understanding of ideological positions, political affiliation, and scholarly identity in early twentieth-century China. By focusing on the influence of cultural inheritance within the rupture of modernity, we come to understand those concerns shared by all Chinese in their own times and in the present.



The Accidental Inheritance

Author : Cate Woods

Publisher : Bookouture

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 43,22 MB

Release : 2023-03-27

Category :

ISBN : 9781800190672

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A surprise inheritance. A hostile lord of the manor. A chance at a new beginning...? When Cassidy Beeswhistle loses her job and her boyfriend within seconds of each other, it's time for a change. Discovering her beloved late father's connection to a tiny English village, it seems like the perfect place to start again. Especially because there's a secret 'lost deed', which - if found - would return the village's gorgeous manor house to its rightful heir: Cassidy... On arrival in Dithercott, Cassidy is blown away by the rolling hills and glittering lake, and the local villagers welcome her with open arms - all of them but one, that is... The current lord of the manor, Ned Bamford-Bligh, is tall and fiendishly attractive with his olive skin and jet-black hair, but he is also gruff and standoffish - and he has no interest in entertaining the new girl in the village; especially one who is potentially after his home, with its ivy-covered turrets and sprawling gardens. Despite Ned's frosty welcome, Cassidy is drawn to his piercing, hazel-eyed glare and she's determined she is to uncover the demons that keep him locked away behind the manor's imposing stonework. Before she knows it, an undeniable spark builds between them... Just as Cassidy is feeling at home in Dithercott - and in the arms of Ned - he shows up on her doorstep clutching an old roll of parchment. Is this the discovery she's been waiting for? And if it is, will its contents bring Ned and Cassidy closer together, or push them apart...? A heart-warming, laugh-out-loud story of home, friendship, family and finding love in the most unlikely of places. The perfect curl-up read for fans of Sarah Morgan, Milly Johnson and Jenny Colgan. What readers are saying about Cate Woods: 'Wow!!... I absolutely LOVED... Gorgeous yet heartbreaking and heart-warming at the same time... I was absolutely sucked in from the first to the last page of this heart-warming and soul-lifting page turner... I had to reach for the tissues... Absolutely stunning... I LOVED it.' Bookworm86, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Loved, loved, loved this story!! The characters are all so warm and loveable that you feel as though you're getting a big hug just reading about them... 100% would recommend!!' Goodreads reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐



Object-oriented C++ Programming

Author : Hirday Narayan Yadav

Publisher : Firewall Media

Page : 472 pages

File Size : 17,69 MB

Release : 2008

Category : C++ (Computer program language)

ISBN : 9788131803646

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Accidental Inheritance

Author : Sheila L. Dryden

Publisher : CreateSpace

Page : 226 pages

File Size : 46,5 MB

Release : 2013-08-28

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 9781492276388

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The cumbersome package Amy carried was beginning to make her arms ache and she put it down in order to knock on the door. She had been surprised when the deliveryman knocked at her own door earlier in the day, asking if she could sign for it. An innocent widow gets caught up in an elaborate murder mystery in Sheila Dryden's heart-pounding debut novel, Accidental Inheritance. Amy Brown enjoys a quiet existence in her small town. That is, until her neighbor and friend, Frances Stone, suddenly dies from a fall. With the coroner's report stating it was an accident, Amy's gut feeling that someone pushed Frances is quickly disregarded by the police chief. But subsequent break-ins at both Frances's and Amy's homes confirm her idea that the person who killed Frances was looking for something. But what? As Amy enlists the help of a well-meaning DEA agent and Frances's charming lawyer, an unexpected love triangle complicates Amy's attempt to find justice for her friend. Amy's life, as well as her daughter's, soon proves to be at risk when she finds herself fighting a dangerous gang of drug smugglers.



Ageing Without Ageism?

Author : Bognar

Publisher : Oxford University Press

Page : 289 pages

File Size : 41,14 MB

Release : 2023-05-14

Category : Philosophy

ISBN : 0192894099

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Ageing without Ageism? contributes to the essential and timely discussion of age, ageism, population ageing, and public policy. It demonstrates the breadth of the challenges posed by these issues by covering a wide range of policy areas: from health care to old-age support, from democratic participation to education, and from family to fiscal policy. With contributions from 21 authors the discussion bridges the gap between academia and public life by putting in dialogue fresh philosophical analysis and specific new policy proposals. It approaches familiar issues like age discrimination, justice between age groups, and democratic participation across the ages from novel perspectives.



The Creation and Inheritance of Digital Afterlives

Author : Debra J. Bassett

Publisher : Springer Nature

Page : 204 pages

File Size : 13,82 MB

Release : 2022-01-01

Category : Philosophy

ISBN : 3030916847

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This book explores how social networking platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, and WhatsApp ‘accidentally’ enable and nurture the creation of digital afterlives, and, importantly, the effect this digital inheritance has on the bereaved. Debra J. Bassett offers a holistic exploration of this phenomenon and presents qualitative data from three groups of participants: service providers, digital creators, and digital inheritors. For the bereaved, loss of data, lack of control, or digital obsolescence can lead to a second loss, and this book introduces the theory of ‘the fear of second loss’. Bassett argues that digital afterlives challenge and disrupt existing grief theories, suggesting how these theories might be expanded to accommodate digital inheritance. This interdisciplinary book will be of interest to sociologists, cyber psychologists, philosophers, death scholars, and grief counsellors. But Bassett’s book can also be seen as a canary in the coal mine for the ‘intentional’ Digital Afterlife Industry (DAI) and their race to monetise the dead. This book provides an understanding of the profound effects uncontrollable timed posthumous messages and the creation of thanabots could have on the bereaved, and Bassett’s conception of a Digital Do Not Reanimate (DDNR) order and a voluntary code of conduct could provide a useful addition to the DAI. Even in the digital societies of the West, we are far from immortal, but perhaps the question we really need to ask is: who wants to live forever?



Intent in Islamic Law

Author : Paul R. Powers

Publisher : BRILL

Page : 249 pages

File Size : 50,65 MB

Release : 2006

Category : Religion

ISBN : 9004145923

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This is the first broad study of the treatment of intent in Islamic law, examining ritual, commercial, family, and penal law and providing new insights into Muslim understandings of law, religious ritual, action, agency, and language.



Making the Modern American Fiscal State

Author : Ajay K. Mehrotra

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 447 pages

File Size : 12,24 MB

Release : 2013-09-30

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 1107436001

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At the turn of the twentieth century, the US system of public finance underwent a dramatic transformation. The late nineteenth-century regime of indirect, hidden, partisan, and regressive taxes was eclipsed in the early twentieth century by a direct, transparent, professionally administered, and progressive tax system. This book uncovers the contested roots and paradoxical consequences of this fundamental shift in American tax law and policy. It argues that the move toward a regime of direct and graduated taxation marked the emergence of a new fiscal polity - a new form of statecraft that was guided not simply by the functional need for greater revenue but by broader social concerns about economic justice, civic identity, bureaucratic capacity, and public power. Between the end of Reconstruction and the onset of the Great Depression, the intellectual, legal, and administrative foundations of the modern fiscal state first took shape. This book explains how and why this new fiscal polity came to be.



Wills, Trusts, and Estates

Author : Reid Kress Weisbord

Publisher : Aspen Publishing

Page : 736 pages

File Size : 24,22 MB

Release : 2024

Category : Estate planning

ISBN :

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"This Trusts and Estates casebook provides the fundamentals in an accessible and straightforward manner. Designed with particular attention toward new professors and those looking for a shorter book that covers all the crucial aspects of trusts and estates practice"--