Justice at a Distance
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| Anteprima |
The
current global-justice literature starts from the premise that world
poverty is the result of structural injustice mostly attributable to
past and present actions of governments and citizens of rich countries.
As a result, that literature recommends vast coercive transfers of
wealth from rich to poor societies, alongside stronger national and
international governance. Justice at a Distance, in contrast, argues
that global injustice is largely home-grown and that these native
restrictions to freedom lie at the root of poverty and stagnation. The
book is the first philosophical work to emphasize free markets in goods,
services, and labor as an ethical imperative that allows people to
pursue their projects and as the one institutional arrangement capable
of alleviating poverty. Supported by a robust economic literature,
Justice at a Distance applies the principle of noninterference to the
issues of wealth and poverty, immigration, trade, the status of
nation-states, war, and aid.
