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| Introduction | |
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| Some Cautions About Our Moral Judgements | |
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| Four Easy Reasons to Ignore World Poverty | |
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| Defending 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 Assessment of National and Global Economic Orders | |
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| Some Factual Background about the Global Economic Order | |
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| The Extent of World Poverty | |
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| The Extent of Global Inequality | |
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| Trends in World Poverty and Inequality | |
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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 Conceptions Through a Double Standard | |
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| Rationalizing Divergent Moral Conceptions 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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| cIntroduction | |
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| cThe Structure of the Problem Faced by Fledgling Democracies | |
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| cReducing the Expected Rewards of Coups d'Etat | |
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| cUndermining the Borrowing Privilege of Authoritarian Predators | |
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| The Criterial Problem | |
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| The Tit-For-Tat Problem | |
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| The Establishment Problem | |
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| Synthesis | |
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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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| Peace and Security | |
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| Reducing Oppression | |
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| Global Economic Justice | |
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| Ecology/Democracy | |
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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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| The Effects of Shared Social Institutions | |
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| Uncompensated Exclusion from the Use of Natural Resources | |
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| The Effects of a Common and Violent History | |
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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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| Notes | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |