Contractualism and Global Economic Justice
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23133642 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Leif Wenar (0000-0002-6885-0592, Princeton University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | 1-2 |
| Pages | 79-94 |
| Publication date | 2001-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Metaphilosophy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0026-1068 • E-ISSN: 1467-9973 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1467-9973.00176 |
| OpenAlex | W2078620781 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 17 |
| References cited | 5 |
This article examines Rawls's and Scanlon's surprisingly undemanding contractualist accounts of global moral principles. Scanlon's Principle of Rescue requires too little of the world's rich unless the causal links between them and the poor are unreliable. Rawls's principle of legitimacy leads him to theorize in terms of a law of peoples instead of persons, and his conception of a people leads him to spurn global distributive equality. Rawls's approach has advantages over the cosmopolitan egalitarianism of Beitz and Pogge. But it cannot generate principles to regulate the entire global economic order. The article proposes a new cosmopolitan economic original position argument to make up for this lack in Rawls's Law of Peoples.
Argument (complex analysis) · Contractualism · Cosmopolitanism · Distributive justice · Economic Justice · Economics · Egalitarianism · Global justice · Law and economics · Legitimacy · Order (exchange) · Original position · Political philosophy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Global Economic and Social Development · Law · Political Philosophy and Ethics · War, Ethics, and Justification
Global Egalitarianism
The International Law of Economic Migration
Justice beyond borders
Enough for the Future
Enough for the Future
Future People
The Law of Peoples
Globalization and the Question of Social Justice
The Political Economy of Public Values
The Democratic Peace is Not Democratic
Global environmental sustainability
Environmental sustainability as the first principle of distributive justice
Pluralism, federalism, and two levels of the original position
Toleration, decency and self-determination in The Law of Peoples
Rawls, Kant'sDoctrine of Right,and Global Distributive Justice
International Distributive Justice
Social Media as a Public Values Sphere
| Citations per year | 0.68 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2001 - 2026 (26) |
| Highly cited | No |