Douglas Bamford
Profile details
Departmental Lecturer in Lifelong Learning (Political Philosophy)
Biography
Doug Bamford studied at the Universities of Southampton, York and Warwick, obtaining his PhD in 2013. Doug is a passionate advocate for continuing education, and was the first person in his family to go to university. His teaching centres around Political Philosophy, including ethics and political economy. He received an Associate Fellowship with Advance HE in recognition of his teaching.
Research interests
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Ethics in policy
- Domestic and international policy on tax and justice
Publications
Books
- Rethinking Taxation: An Introduction to hourly averaging (London: Searching Finance, 2014)
Selected Articles
- Duties in an international world: The importance of past residence and citizenship Problema (2023)
- Can Climate Civil Disobedience be Justified? Think! (2023)
- Arguing for a New Form of Taxation: Lifetime Hourly Averaging Journal of Applied Philosophy (2018)
- The holistic, policy focused, interpretation of hypothetical insurance Journal of Moral Philosophy and Politics (2015)
- Realising International Justice: To constrain or to counter-incentivise? Journal of Moral Philosophy and Politics (2014: Special issue on global taxation)
Chapters
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“Democratic legitimacy, sovereignty, and international taxation” in Lind and Avi-Yonah Taxation, Citizenship and Democracy in the 21st Century (2024) pp7-33.
- ‘Ethical Taxation: Progressivity, Efficiency and Hourly Averaging’ in Philosophical Explorations of Justice and Taxation (Springer, 2015)
- ‘Ethical Taxation and Finance’ in Chaudhry, S. and Mullineux, A. W. Taxing Banks Fairly (Edward Elgar, 2014)
- ‘Comprehensive lifetime taxation of international citizens’ in Tax Justice And The Political Economy Of Global Capitalism (Berghahn Books, 2013).
