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  • In Defense of Openness

    Why Global Freedom Is the Humane Solution to Global Poverty

    by Bas van der Vossen, Jason Brennan ...
    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 ... Read more

    $70.99 CAD

  • Political Philosophy: The Basics

    by Bas van der Vossen ...
    Series series The Basics
    This book offers an introduction to political philosophy, the study of the role of government in our lives. It discusses what political philosophy is about, its most important and enduring questions, and how to do political philosophy well. Throughout, the book discusses issues such as:• Do we have a moral obligation to obey the law?• What’s the value of equality?• What’s the nature of justice?• ... Read more

    $40.99 CAD

  • Debating Humanitarian Intervention

    Should We Try to Save Strangers?

    by Bas van der Vossen, Fernando R. Tesón ...
    Series series Debating Ethics
    When foreign powers attack civilians, other countries face an impossible dilemma. Two courses of action emerge: either to retaliate against an abusive government on behalf of its victims, or to remain spectators. Either course offers its own perils: the former, lost lives and resources without certainty of restoring peace or preventing worse problems from proliferating; the latter, cold ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Economic Liberties and Human Rights

    Edited by Jahel Queralt, Bas van der Vossen ...
    Series series Political Philosophy for the Real World
    The status of economic liberties remains a serious lacuna in the theory and practice of human rights. Should a minimally just society protect the freedoms to sell, save, profit and invest? Is being prohibited to run a business a human rights violation? While these liberties enjoy virtually no support from the existing philosophical theories of human rights and little protection by the ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • The Routledge Handbook of Libertarianism

    Edited by Bas van der Vossen, David Schmidtz, Jason Brennan ...
    Series series Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy
    Libertarians often bill their theory as an alternative to both the traditional Left and Right. The Routledge Handbook of Libertarianism helps readers fully examine this alternative without preaching it to them, exploring the contours of libertarian (sometimes also called classical liberal) thinking on justice, institutions, interpersonal ethics, government, and political economy. The 31 chapters- ... Read more

    $98.99 CAD

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  • Future Publics

    Democracy, Deliberation, and Future-Regarding Collective Action

    by Michael K. MacKenzie ...
    Scholars have often claimed that democracies, whatever their virtues, are functionally short-sighted. The evidence is clear: we have been unable to manage many long-term issues including climate change, nuclear waste disposal, natural disaster preparedness, infrastructure maintenance, and budget deficits. If voters and influential actors, such as interest groups and corporations, have dominant ... Read more

    $100.79 CAD

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  • World Poverty and Human Rights

    by Thomas W. Pogge ...
    Some 2.5 billion human beings live in severe poverty, deprived of such essentials as adequate nutrition, safe drinking water, basic sanitation, adequate shelter, literacy, and basic health care. One third of all human deaths are from poverty-related causes: 18 million annually, including over 10 million children under five.However huge in human terms, the world poverty problem is tiny economically ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Global Justice and International Economic Law

    Opportunities and Prospects

    Edited by Chi Carmody, Frank J. Garcia, John Linarelli ...
    Series series ASIL Studies in International Legal Theory
    Since the beginnings of the GATT and the Bretton Woods institutions, and on to the creation of the WTO, states have continued to develop institutions and legal infrastructure to promote global interdependence. International lawyers are experts in understanding how these institutions operate in practice, but they tend to uncritically accept comparative advantage as the principal normative criterion ... Read more

    $51.99 CAD

  • The Tyranny of Generosity

    Why Philanthropy Corrupts Our Politics and How We Can Fix It

    by Theodore M. Lechterman ...
    The practice of philanthropy, which releases private property for public purposes, represents in many ways the best angels of our nature. But this practice's noteworthy virtues often obscure the fact that philanthropy also represents the exercise of private power. In The Tyranny of Generosity, Theodore Lechterman shows how this private power can threaten the foundations of a democratic society. ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • The Road to Freedom

    Economics and the Good Society

    by Joseph E. Stiglitz ...
    From one of the world’s leading economists, a compelling new vision of personal and economic freedom.We are a nation born from the conviction that people must be free. But since the middle of the last century, that idea has been co-opted. Forces on the political Right have justified exploitation by cloaking it in the rhetoric of freedom, leading to pharmaceutical companies freely overcharging for ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Why Some Things Should Not Be for Sale

    The Moral Limits of Markets

    by Debra Satz ...
    Series series Oxford Political Philosophy
    What's wrong with markets in everything? Markets today are widely recognized as the most efficient way in general to organize production and distribution in a complex economy. And with the collapse of communism and rise of globalization, it's no surprise that markets and the political theories supporting them have seen a considerable resurgence. For many, markets are an all-purpose remedy for the ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

  • The Machinery of Government

    Public Administration and the Liberal State

    by Joseph Heath ...
    In political theory, the traditional model of state power was that elected officials make policy decisions which are then faithfully executed by a lower cadre of public servants. The complexity of the modern state, however, leaves this model outdated. The vast number of economic and social problems it confronts is such that a great deal of rule-making power is now delegated to a class of civil ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD