September 19, 2018
Global Justice and Misleading Metaphors
In most countries, most people are poor. In some countries, most people are rich. Adam Smith and other economists have long sought to explain why. Philosophers who work on global justice…
Posts filed under global justice
September 04, 2015
Helping the Global Poor with Charity that Works
Suppose you’re convinced by Peter Singer’s thought experiment, and believe that those of us in rich countries have a moral duty to help the global poor. How should we go…
June 12, 2015
Should Libertarians Support the TPP?
As has been widely reported, leaked draft language of the Trans-Pacific Partnership features expanded and more rigid protections for trademarks, copyrights, and patents, which raises the question of whether libertarians…
June 04, 2015
Is Global Wealth Inequality Unjust?
[Editor’s Note: The following is a guest post by Jonathan Anomaly, assistant professor of political science at Duke University.] When we look around the world and observe the massive wealth…
March 13, 2012
Justice at a Distance
I have not been blogging lately because I’ve been working with Loren Lomasky on a book about global justice. Its provisional title is Justice at a Distance. Here are the…