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This is a short, accessible introduction to John Rawls' thought and gives a thorough and concise presentation of the main outlines of Rawls' theory as well as drawing links between Rawl's enterprise and other important positions in moral and political philosophy.

This book is on tax justice and why it is important for peace, human rights, and a more sustainable future. It addresses the inequities that currently exist in the global tax system, and what can be done about it.

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This book is on tax justice and why it is important for peace, human rights, and a more sustainable future. It addresses the inequities that currently exist in the global tax system, and what can be done about it.

La disuguaglianza continua ad aumentare di decennio in decennio. La parte opulenta della popolazione mondiale diventa sempre più ricca e i poveri rimangono a un livello al di sotto del minimo di sussistenza. Come può persistere una povertà estrema per la metà dell'umanità, nonostante l'enorme progresso economico e tecnologico, le norme morali e i valori illuminati della nostra civiltà occidentale? Perché noi - cittadini degli stati ricchi dell...

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 t...

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Worldwide, human lives are rapidly improving. Education, health-care, technology, and political participation are becoming ever more universal, empowering human beings everywhere to enjoy security, economic sufficiency, equal citizenship, and a life in dignity. To be sure, there are some specially difficult areas disfavoured by climate, geography, local diseases, unenlightened cultures or political tyranny. Here progress is slow, and there may...

Warum sind viele Wohlhabende der Ansicht, keine Verantwortung für die Beseitigung der Weltarmut tragen zu müssen, obwohl eine Einkommensverschiebung moralisch zwingend scheint? Die Theorien der Vermögenden koppeln sie scheinbar von der Armut im Ausland ab. Pogge erklärt und beseitigt diese Illusion und schlägt einen realistischen Standard globaler ökonomischer Gerechtigkeit vor. Das Buch ist eine Übersetzung des in Großbritannien und den USA ...

Global justice is rapidly emerging as a major academic field, focusing on the values to assess and guide the most important political transition of our time. Professional philosophers and political theorists made many of the most important contributions to this field as it was developing at the end of the 20th Century. Those seminal early contributions continue to define terrain of the current debates about global justice, and have now been br...

John Rawls was one of the most important political philosophers of our time, and promises to be an enduring figure over the coming decades. His Theory of Justice (1971) has had a profound impact across philosophy, politics, law, and economics. Nonetheless Rawlsian theory is not easy to understand, particularly for beginners, and his writing can be dense and forbidding. Thomas Pogge's short introduction (originally published in German) gives a ...

Collected here in one volume are fifteen cutting-edge essays by leading academics which together clarify and defend the claim that freedom from poverty is a human right with corresponding binding obligations on the more affluent to practice effective poverty avoidance. This volume is co-published with UNESCO publishing.

Gerechtigkeit ist die oberste politische Tugend, an ihr muss sich alles andere messen. Angesichts der globalen Vernetzung der Welt, der internationalen Warenströme, der Migrationsbewegungen, der kulturellen und politischen Konflikte stellen sich Fragen der politischen Gerechtigkeit heute international und gewinnen gerade zu Zeiten der Weltwirtschaftskrise erneut an Relevanz.Thomas Pagge, Leitner Professor for Philosophy and International Affai...

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This portrait of the global debate over patent law and access to essential medicines focuses on public health concerns about HIV/AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis, the SARS virus, influenza, and diseases of poverty. The essays explore the diplomatic negotiations and disputes in key international fora, such as the World Trade Organization, the World Health Organization and the World Intellectual Property Organization. Drawing upon international trade...

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Global Ethics, along with its companion volume Global Justice, will aid in the study of global justice and global ethical issues with significant global dimensions. Some of those issues directly concern what individuals, countries, and other associations

Global Justice is part of a two-volume set (with Global Ethics) that will aid in the study of global justice and global ethical issues with significant global dimensions. Some of those issues directly concern what individuals, countries, and other associations ought to do in response to various global problems, such as poverty, population growth, and climate change>

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