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World Poverty and Human Rights Paperback - 2008
by Pogge, Thomas W
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- Title World Poverty and Human Rights
- Author Pogge, Thomas W
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: secon
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 304
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Polity Press, United Kingdom
- Date 2008-02-26
- Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # 074564144X.G
- ISBN 9780745641447 / 074564144X
- Weight 1.11 lbs (0.50 kg)
- Dimensions 9.02 x 6.06 x 0.9 in (22.91 x 15.39 x 2.29 cm)
- Dewey Decimal Code 323.01
From the rear cover
However huge in human terms, the world poverty problem is tiny economically. Just 1 percent of the national incomes of the high-income countries would suffice to end severe poverty worldwide. Yet, these countries, unwilling to bear an opportunity cost of this magnitude, continue to impose a grievously unjust global institutional order that foreseeably and avoidably perpetuates the catastrophe. Most citizens of affluent countries believe that we are doing nothing wrong.
Thomas Pogge 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.
Thoroughly updated, the second edition of this classic book incorporates responses to critics and a new chapter introducing Pogge's current work on pharmaceutical patent reform.