Politics as Usual

Thomas W. Pogge 지음

Polity 2013년 04월 24일 출간

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Worldwide, human lives are rapidly improving. Education, health-care, technology, and political participation are becoming ever more universal, empowering human beings everywhere to enjoy security, economic sufficiency, equal citizenship, and a life in dignity. To be sure, there are some specially difficult areas disfavoured by climate, geography, local diseases, unenlightened cultures or political tyranny. Here progress is slow, and there may be set-backs. But the affluent states and many international organizations are working steadily to extend the blessings of modernity through trade and generous development assistance, and it won't be long until the last pockets of severe oppression and poverty are gone.Heavily promoted by Western governments and media, this comforting view of the world is widely shared, at least among the affluent. Pogge's new book presents an alternative view: Poverty and oppression persist on a massive scale; political and economic inequalities are rising dramatically both intra-nationally and globally. The affluent states and the international organizations they control knowingly contribute greatly to these evils- selfishly promoting rules and policies harmful to the poor while hypocritically pretending to set and promote ambitious development goals. Pogge's case studies include the $1/day poverty measurement exercise, the cosmetic statistics behind the first Millennium Development Goal, the War on Terror, and the proposed relaxation of the constraints on humanitarian intervention. A powerful moral analysis that shows what Western states would do if they really cared about the values they profess.

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General Introduction1 What is global justice1.0 Introduction1.1 The extent of global poverty1.2 The moral significance of global poverty1.3 From international to global justice1.4 Interactional and institutional moral analysis1.5 Transnational institutional analysis1.6 The global institutional order contributes to severe poverty1.7 Global poverty is foreseeable and avoidable1.8 Conclusion2 Recognized and violated by international law: the human rights of the global poor2.0 Introduction2.1 Human rights and correlative duties2.2 The purely domestic poverty thesis2.3 The Panglossian view of the present global order2.4 Is the present global order merely less beneficial than it might be?2.5 The present global order massively violates human rights2.6 The promise of global institutional reform3 The first UN Millennium Development Goal: a cause for celebration?3.0 Introduction3.1 Reflection one on halving world poverty3.2 Reflection two on tracking poverty by counting the poor3.3 Reflection three on where the line is drawn3.4 Reflection four on relating the IPL to the global product3.5 Concluding thoughts4 Developing morally plausible indices of poverty and gender equity: a research program4.0 Introduction4.1 The World Bank's tracking poverty by counting people below some IPL4.2 The problematic reliance on CPIs and PPPs4.3 Tracking development with the HDI and gender equity with the GDI4.4 Toward new indices of development, poverty and gender equity5 Growth and inequality: understanding recent trends and political choices5.0 Introduction5.1 Who benefits from recent growth?5.2 Intra-national inequality5.3 Growth and poverty in China5.4 Global inequality5.5 What next6 Dworkin, the abortion battle, and global poverty6.0 Introduction6.

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"I would recommend this book for its provocative and well-argued positions on a range of topics."Population Studies"In an age of economic austerity and financial crisis, the temptation is to literally adopt the old adage that 'charity begins at home' ... Pogge's book is an important corrective to such arguments."Central European Journal of Economic and Security Studies"Likely to challenge, disturb and shock any reader willing to enter the world described by Pogge. Nevertheless, it is essential reading ... Pogge brings a very personal and heartfelt morality to issues that are usually dealt with in high economic terms."Kelvingrove Review

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저자(글) Thomas W. Pogge

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Thomas Pogge, Professor, Australian National University