World Poverty and Human Rights
(Sprache: Englisch)
Some 2.5 billion human beings live in severe poverty, deprived of such essentials as adequate nutrition, safe drinking water, basic sanitation, adequate shelter, literacy, and basic health care. One third of all human deaths are from poverty-related causes:...
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Some 2.5 billion human beings live in severe poverty, deprived of such essentials as adequate nutrition, safe drinking water, basic sanitation, adequate shelter, literacy, and basic health care. One third of all human deaths are from poverty-related causes: 18 million annually, including over 10 million children under five.However huge in human terms, the world poverty problem is tiny economically. Just 1 percent of the national incomes of the high-income countries would suffice to end severe poverty worldwide. Yet, these countries, unwilling to bear an opportunity cost of this magnitude, continue to impose a grievously unjust global institutional order that foreseeably and avoidably perpetuates the catastrophe. Most citizens of affluent countries believe that we are doing nothing wrong.
Thomas Pogge seeks to explain how this belief is sustained. He analyses how our moral and economic theorizing and our global economic order have adapted to make us appear disconnected from massive poverty abroad. Dispelling the illusion, he also offers a modest, widely sharable standard of global economic justice and makes detailed, realistic proposals toward fulfilling it.
Thoroughly updated, the second edition of this classic book incorporates responses to critics and a new chapter introducing Pogge's current work on pharmaceutical patent reform.
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From the contents:Introduction.
I Some Cautions About Our Moral Judgements.
II Four Easy Reasons to Ignore World Poverty.
III Sophisticated Defenses of our acquiescence in world poverty.
IV Does Our New Global Economic Order Really Not Harm the Poor?.
V Responsibilities and Reforms
Autoren-Porträt von Thomas W. Pogge
Thomas Pogge is Professor of Philosophy and International Affairs at Yale University; Professorial Fellow in the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics at the Australian National University; Research Director in the Centre for the Study of Mind in Nature at the University of Oslo; and Adjunct Professor in the Centre for Professional Ethics at the University of Central Lancashire.
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- Autor: Thomas W. Pogge
- 2004, Repr., 284 Seiten, Maße: 23 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Blackwell Publishers
- ISBN-10: 0745629954
- ISBN-13: 9780745629957
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Englisch
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