The Paradox of Wealth and Poverty: Mapping the Ethical Dilemmas of Global Development

ISBN-13: 9780367318857 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 303 str.

Daniel Little

Opis

We live in a time of human paradoxes. Scientific knowledge has reached a level of sophistication that permits understanding of the most arcane phenomena and yet religious fundamentalism dominates in many parts of the world. We witness the emergence of a civil, liberal constitutionalism in many regions of the world and yet ethnic violence threatens

Spis treści

Introduction -- Welfare, Well-Being, and Needs -- What Is Economic Development? -- Goals and Strategies for Economic Development -- Justice -- Human Rights -- Aid, Trade, and the Global Economy -- Development and the Environment -- Democracy and Development -- Conclusion: Toward a Global Civil Society

O autorze

Daniel Little is associate professor of philosophy at Colgate University and visiting scholar at the centre for International Affairs, Harvard University.