World Poverty and Human Rights: Cosmopolitan Responsibilities and Reforms - Tapa blanda

Pogge, Thomas

 
9780745629957: World Poverty and Human Rights: Cosmopolitan Responsibilities and Reforms
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ISBN 10: 0745629954 ISBN 13: 9780745629957
Editorial: Polity Press, 2002

Sinopsis

The poorest 46 percent of humankind have 1.2 percent of global income. Their purchasing power per person per day is less than that of $2.15 in the US in 1993; 826 million of them do not have enough to eat. One-third of all human deaths are from poverty-related causes: 18 million annually, including 12 million children under five. At the other end, the 15 percent of humankind in the 'high-income economies' have 80 percent of global income. Shifting 1 or 2 percent of our share toward poverty eradication seems morally compelling. Yet the prosperous 1990s have in fact brought a large shift toward greater global inequality, as most of the affluent believe that they have no such responsibility. Thomas Pogge's book 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.

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Acerca del autor

Thomas W. Pogge is Associate Professor of Philosophy, Columbia University

De la contraportada

The poorest 46 percent of humankind have 1.2 percent of global income.
Their purchasing power per person per day is less than that of $2.15 in
the US in 1993; 826 million of them do not have enough to eat. One-third
of all human deaths are from poverty-related causes: 18 million
annually, including 12 million children under five.

At the other end, the 15 percent of humankind in the 'high-income
economies' have 80 percent of global income. Shifting 1 or 2 percent of
our share toward poverty eradication seems morally compelling. Yet the
prosperous 1990s have in fact brought a large shift toward greater
global inequality, as most of the affluent believe that they have no
such responsibility.

Thomas Pogge's book 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.

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Editorial
Polity Press
Año de publicación
2002
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0745629954
ISBN 13 
9780745629957
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
296
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9780745629940: World Poverty and Human Rights: Cosmopolitan Responsibilities and Reforms

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ISBN 10:  0745629946 ISBN 13:  9780745629940
Editorial: Polity Press, 2002
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