Absolute Poverty and Global Justice - Empirical Data - Moral Theories - Initiatives

Summary

It is held that absolute poverty causes approximately one third of all human deaths, some 18 million annually, and blights billions of lives with hunger and disease. This book develops universalizable norms aimed at tackling absolute poverty and the complex and multilayered problems associated with it.

Product details

• Authors: Thomas Pogge, Pogge Thomas, Michael Schramm, Michael Pogge Schramm, Schramm Michael
• Assisted by: Elke Mack (Editor), Mack Elke (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.10.2016
• EAN: 9781138255050
• ISBN: 978-1-138-25505-0
• No. of pages: 302
• Series: Law, Ethics and Economics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness, LAW / International, LAW / Public, LAW / Jurisprudence, Poverty & unemployment, Jurisprudence & general issues, Public international law: human rights, International human rights law, Housing & homelessness, Poverty and precarity, Jurisprudence and general issues, Housing and homelessness