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Book SynopsisThis book considers what responsibilities affluent individuals have toward global poverty, given that global poverty is a problem with structural, political causes, and one that generally requires collective action. While philosophers have tended to address responsibility for global poverty in exclusively moral, political, or legal ways, Gosselin examines the intersection of these three approaches, giving a comprehensive look at affluent individuals'' relationships to poverty. She thus provides both a survey of existing literature on responsibility for global poverty, as well as a positive proposal for a pluralistic and differentiated account of individual duties based on a person''s moral agency, her roles within collective groups (including her occupational and civic roles), and her institutional identities as citizen and consumer. While the agents most responsible for addressing global poverty are collectives like governments and corporations, individuals have various kinds of dutie
Trade ReviewThis is a terrific book about affluent individuals' responsibility for addressing global poverty. Gosselin presents three different models of responsibility, each providing a different set of reasoned recommendations. She recognizes that different people will prefer different models but regards the models as complementary rather than mutually exclusive. Gosselin ends the book with her own practical, realistic, and deeply insightful conclusions. The book is philosophically sophisticated, providing a valuable contribution to the scholarship on responsibility. It is also refreshingly crisp, unpretentious, accessible, and briskly paced. It is currently the best available book for introducing students to this important topic. -- Alison M. Jaggar, University of Colorado, Boulder
Table of ContentsChapter 1 1. Global Poverty and Responsibility Chapter 2 2. Duties of Beneficence Chapter 3 3. Duties of Redress Chapter 4 4. Duties of Institutional Justice Chapter 5 5. Responsibilities of Affluent Individuals
