In Defense of Openness: Why Global Freedom Is the Humane Solution to Global Poverty 1st Edition – Ebook PDF Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9780190876111, 0190876115, 9780190462956, 0190462957

Product details:

• ISBN-10: 0190876115
• ISBN-13: 9780190876111
• Author: Bas van der Vossen, Jason Brennan

In Defense of Openness illuminates the problem by stressing that that there is overwhelming evidence that economic rights and freedom are necessary for development, and that global redistribution tends to hurt more than it helps. Bas van der Vossen and Jason Brennan instead ask what a theory of global justice would look like if it were informed by the facts that mainstream development and institutional economics have brought to light. They conceptualize global justice as global freedom and insist we can help the poor-and help ourselves at the same time-by implementing open borders, free trade, the strong protection of individual freedom, and economic rights and property for all around the world. In short, they work from empirical, consequentialist grounds to advocate for the market society as a model for global justice.A spirited challenge to mainstream political theory from two leading political philosophers, In Defense of Openness offers a new approach to global justice: We don’t need to “save” the poor. The poor will save themselves, if we would only get out of their way and let them.

Table contents:

1. Positive-Sum Global Justice

2. The Moral and Economic Case for Free Immigration

3. Economic Objections to Open Borders

4. Philosophical Objections to Open Borders

5. The Moral and Economic Case for Free Trade

6. Philosophers’ Objections to Free Trade

7. In Defense of Productive Human Rights

8. Correcting the Past: Imperialism and Colonialism

9. Improving the Present: Justice and the Global Order

10. Toward a Better Future: International Aid and Global Charity

11. The Climate Change Objection to Economic Growth

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