Loren E. Lomasky

Justice at a Distance (eBook, ePUB)

Extending Freedom Globally

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The current global-justice literature starts from the premise that world poverty is the result of structural injustice mostly attributable to past and present actions of governments and citizens of rich countries. As a result, that literature recommends vast coercive transfers of wealth from rich to poor societies, alongside stronger national and international governance. Justice at a Distance, in contrast, argues that global injustice is largely home-grown and that these native restrictions to freedom lie at the root of poverty and stagnation. The book is the first philosophical work to emphasize free markets in goods, services, and labor as an ethical imperative that allows people to pursue their projects and as the one institutional arrangement capable of alleviating poverty. Supported by a robust economic literature, Justice at a Distance applies the principle of noninterference to the issues of wealth and poverty, immigration, trade, the status of nation-states, war, and aid.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. September 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781316404065
• Artikelnr.: 52921049

Autorenporträt

Loren Lomasky is Cory Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Virginia. Lomasky is the author of Persons, Rights and the Moral Community (1987) for which he was awarded the 1990 Matchette Foundation Book Prize for best philosophy book published during the preceding two years by an author under the age of forty. He coauthored Democracy and Decision: The Pure Theory of Electoral Preference (Cambridge, 1993) with Geoffrey Brennan. His essay, 'Is There a Duty to Vote?', also coauthored with Brennan, was awarded the 2003 Gregory Kavka/University of California, Irvine Prize in Political Philosophy by the American Philosophical Association.

Inhaltsangabe

1. The state of the world
2. What do we owe distant others?
3. Choosing wealth, choosing poverty
4. Immigration
5. Emigration and the brain drain objection
6. Justice and trade
7. States
8. War, self-defense, and humanitarian intervention
9. Beyond justice at a distance.