World poverty and human rights / by Thomas Pogge.
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TextPublication details: Cambridge : Polity, 2008.Edition: 2nd edDescription: vii, 284 pages ; 24 cmContent type: - text
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- 0745641431
- 074564144X
- 9780745641447
- JC571 P75
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Previous edition: 2002.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [265] -327) and index.
Human flourishing and universal justice -- How should human rights be conceived? -- Loopholes in moralities -- Moral universalism and global economic justice -- The bounds of nationalism -- Achieving democracy -- Cosmopolitanism and sovereignty -- Eradicating systemic poverty : brief for a global resources dividend -- Pharmaceutical innovation : must we exclude the poor?
Thomas Pogge tries to explain how most of the population of this planet can excuse world poverty. A mere one or two % of the wealth of the richer nations could help in eradicating much of the poverty but there's a slim chance of that happening.
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