This paper evaluates the redistributive and labour supply effects of transitioning from a joint to a fully individualised income tax system in Ireland. The current Irish tax system, which remains partially joint since the early 2000's, provides a financial advantage to married couples by...

This paper studies how colonial religious institutions reshaped traditional social structures in Africa. Focusing on the Congo, I examine the long-term effects of Christian missions that sought to replace kin-based authority with European-Christian notions of social and moral order. I combine...

This article re-examines growth-based conceptualizations of social justice, first by revisiting Simon Kuznets's postwar claim that economic growth would ultimately generate greater equality, a perspective that subsequent evidence has steadily weakened, and then by considering the argument that...

This article re-examines growth-based conceptualizations of social justice, first by revisiting Simon Kuznets's postwar claim that economic growth would ultimately generate greater equality, a perspective that subsequent evidence has steadily weakened, and then by considering the argument that...

This chapter, interwoven with poetry, explores the profound impact of both land and sea in the displacement and dispossession of Black people, reflecting on the complex relationship with these elemental forces. It traces the violent history of enslavement, from the horrors of the Middle Passage...