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General Introduction | |
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Some cautions about our moral judgments | |
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Four easy reasons to ignore world poverty | |
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Sophisticated defenses of our acquiescence in world poverty | |
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Does our new global economic order really not harm the poor? | |
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Responsibilities and reforms | |
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Human Flourishing and Universal Justice | |
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Introduction | |
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Social justice | |
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Paternalism | |
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Justice in first approximation | |
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Essential refinements | |
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Human rights | |
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Specification of human rights and responsibilities for their realization | |
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Conclusion | |
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How Should Human Rights be Conceived? | |
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Introduction | |
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From natural law to rights | |
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From natural rights to human rights | |
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Official disrespect | |
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The libertarian critique of social and economic rights | |
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The critique of social and economic rights as "manifesto rights" | |
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Disputes about kinds of human rights | |
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Loopholes in Moralities | |
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Introduction | |
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Types of incentives | |
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Loopholes | |
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Social arrangements | |
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Case 1: the converted apartment building | |
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Case 2: the homelands policy of white South Africa | |
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An objection | |
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Strengthening | |
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Fictional histories | |
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Puzzles of equivalence | |
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Conclusion | |
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Moral Universalism and Global Economic Justice | |
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Introduction | |
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Moral universalism | |
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Our moral assessments of national and global economic orders | |
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Some factual background about the global economic order | |
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Conceptions of national and global economic justice contrasted | |
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Moral universalism and David Miller's contextualism | |
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Contextualist moral universalism and John Rawls's moral conception | |
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Rationalizing divergent moral assessments through a double standard | |
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Rationalizing divergent moral assessments without a double standard | |
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The causal role of global institutions in the persistence of severe poverty | |
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Conclusion | |
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The Bounds of Nationalism | |
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Introduction | |
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Common nationalism: priority for the interests of compatriots | |
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Lofty nationalism: the justice-for-compatriots priority | |
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Explanatory nationalism: the deep significance of national borders | |
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Conclusion | |
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Achieving Democracy | |
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Introduction | |
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The structure of the problem faced by fledgling democracies | |
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Reducing the expected rewards of coups d'etat | |
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Undermining the borrowing privilege of authoritarian predators | |
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Undermining the resource privilege of authoritarian predators | |
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Conclusion | |
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Cosmopolitanism and Sovereignty | |
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Introduction | |
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Institutional cosmopolitanism based on human rights | |
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The idea of state sovereignty | |
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Some main reasons for a vertical dispersal of sovereignty | |
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The shaping and reshaping of political units | |
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Conclusion | |
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Eradicating Systemic Poverty: Brief for a Global Resources Dividend | |
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Introduction | |
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Radical inequality and our responsibility | |
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Three grounds of injustice | |
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A moderate proposal | |
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The moral argument for the proposed reform | |
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Is the reform proposal realistic? | |
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Conclusion | |
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Pharmaceutical Innovation: Must We Exclude the Poor? | |
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Introduction | |
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The TRIPS Agreement and its aftermath | |
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The argument from beneficial consequences | |
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Toward a better way of stimulating research and development of essential medicines | |
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Differential pricing | |
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The public-good strategy for extending access to essential medicines | |
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A full-pull plan for the provision of pharmaceuticals | |
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Specifying and implementing the basic full-pull idea | |
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Justifying the plan to affluent citizens and their representatives | |
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Last Words | |
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Notes | |
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Bibliography | |
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Index | |