Nicole Hassoun

Globalization and Global Justice

Shrinking Distance, Expanding Obligations

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Produktbeschreibung

This book shows how globalization shrinks distance, thereby expanding international obligations to aid the poor and make free trade fair.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Februar 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 365g
• ISBN-13: 9781107424920
• ISBN-10: 1107424925
• Artikelnr.: 40720548

Autorenporträt

Nicole Hassoun is Assistant Professor in Philosophy at Carnegie Mellon University. Her articles appear in journals such as American Philosophical Quarterly, The European Journal of Philosophy, the Critical Review of Social and Political Philosophy, The Journal of Applied Ethics, Public Affairs Quarterly, Environmental Ethics, the Journal of Moral Philosophy, The American Journal of Bioethics and Utilitas.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: Introduction: globalization and global justice
1. The human rights argument
2. The coercive global institutional system
3. Legitimacy and global justice
Part II: Introduction to Part II: seeing the water for the sea
4. Libertarian obligations to the poor?
5. Empirical evidence and the case for foreign aid
6. Free trade and poverty
7. Making free trade fair
Conclusion: expanding obligations.