In Defense of Openness
Why Global Freedom Is the Humane Solution to Global Poverty
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 27 September 2018
- ISBN 9780190462956
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages240 pages
- Size 160x236x22 mm
- Weight 476 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 15 illustrations 0
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Short description:
In Defense of Openness stresses 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. This book 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.
MoreLong description:
The topic of global justice has long been a central concern within political philosophy and political theory, and there is no doubt that it will remain significant given the persistence of poverty on a massive scale and soaring global inequality. Yet, virtually every analysis in the vast literature of the subject seems ignorant of what developmental economists, both left and right, have to say about the issue.
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.
Van der Vossen (Chapman) and Brennan (Georgetown) have written a lively, cogently argued work that will be of interest to anyone who cares about global justice, and will be particularly valuable for college courses... Summing Up: Essential.
Table of Contents:
Preface
1. Zero vs. Positive-Sum Global Justice
2. The Moral and Economic Case for Free Immigration
3. Economic Objections to Open Borders
4. Philosophers' Objections to Open Borders
5. The Moral and Economic Case for Free Trade
6. Philosophers' Objections to Free Trade
7. Productive Human Rights
8. Correcting the Past: Imperialism and Colonialism
9. Improving the Present: Justice and the Global Order
10. Towards a Better Future: International Aid and Global Charity
11. The Climate Change Objection to Economic Growth
Postscript
