On the Problem of Inherited Wealth in Political Philosophy: Replies to Macleod, Barry, Braun, Wolff and Fleischer

This is a response to five critical commentaries on my 2018 book The Inheritance of Wealth , these being the papers in this symposium from Miranda Perry Fleischer, Jonathan Wolff, Stewart Braun, Nicholas Barry, and Colin Macleod. After brief review some recent empirical data inherited wealth, replies concentrate central themes discussed by authors. These include question how connect inheritance with longstanding theoretical efforts properly interpret contrast luck-egalitarian relational-egalitarian theories justice; role concept solidarity evaluating tax policy; questions about an would impact differently middle class versus very wealthy; case for furthering defense ‘Rignano Scheme’ which second- or third-generation taxed at higher rate than transfer newly created wealth.