Take No Prisoners: The Battle Plan for Defeating the Left

Take No Prisoners: The Battle Plan for Defeating the Left
David Horowitz (Author)
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Human Rights

On Liberty

On Liberty
John Stuart Mill (Author), Will Jonson (Editor)
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Human Rights

On Liberty (Dover Thrift Editions)

On Liberty (Dover Thrift Editions)
John Stuart Mill (Author)
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Human Rights

In powerful and persuasive prose, Mill asks and answers provocative questions relating to the boundaries of social authority and individual sovereignty. This new edition offers students of political science and philosophy, in an inexpensive volume, one of the most influential studies on the nature of individual liberty and its role in a democratic society.

• Rank: #11335 in Books
• Published on: 2002-06-19
• Released on: 2002-06-19
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 8.15" h x 5.16" w x .28" l, .19 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 112 pages

World Poverty and Human Rights

World Poverty and Human Rights
Thomas W. Pogge (Author)
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Human Rights

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. Just 1 percent of the national incomes of the high-income countries would suffice to end severe poverty worldwide. Yet, these countries, unwilling to bear an opportunity cost of this magnitude, continue to impose a grievously unjust global institutional order that foreseeably and avoidably perpetuates the catastrophe. Most citizens of affluent countries believe that we are doing nothing wrong.

Thomas Pogge seeks to explain how this belief is sustained. He analyses how our moral and economic theorizing and our global economic order have adapted to make us appear disconnected from massive poverty abroad. Dispelling the illusion, he also offers a modest, widely sharable standard of global economic justice and makes detailed, realistic proposals toward fulfilling it.


Thoroughly updated, the second edition of this classic book incorporates responses to critics and a new chapter introducing Pogge's current work on pharmaceutical patent reform.

• Rank: #140050 in Books
• Published on: 2008-02-26
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 9.06" h x 6.06" w x .91" l, 1.11 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 304 pages

Free Market Fairness

Free Market Fairness
John Tomasi (Author)
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Human Rights

Can libertarians care about social justice? In Free Market Fairness, John Tomasi argues that they can and should. Drawing simultaneously on moral insights from defenders of economic liberty such as F. A. Hayek and advocates of social justice such as John Rawls, Tomasi presents a new theory of liberal justice. This theory, free market fairness, is committed to both limited government and the material betterment of the poor. Unlike traditional libertarians, Tomasi argues that property rights are best defended not in terms of self-ownership or economic efficiency but as requirements of democratic legitimacy. At the same time, he encourages egalitarians concerned about social justice to listen more sympathetically to the claims ordinary citizens make about the importance of private economic liberty in their daily lives. In place of the familiar social democratic interpretations of social justice, Tomasi offers a "market democratic" conception of social justice: free market fairness. Tomasi argues that free market fairness, with its twin commitment to economic liberty and a fair distribution of goods and opportunities, is a morally superior account of liberal justice. Free market fairness is also a distinctively American ideal. It extends the notion, prominent in America's founding period, that protection of property and promotion of real opportunity are indivisible goals. Indeed, according to Tomasi, free market fairness is social justice, American style.

Provocative and vigorously argued, Free Market Fairness offers a bold new way of thinking about politics, economics, and justice--one that will challenge readers on both the left and right.

• Rank: #137504 in Books
• Published on: 2013-05-05
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 384 pages

The Idea of Human Rights

The Idea of Human Rights
Charles R. Beitz (Author)

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Human Rights

The international doctrine of human rights is one of the most ambitious parts of the settlement of World War II. Since then, the language of human rights has become the common language of social criticism in global political life. This book is a theoretical examination of the central idea of that language, the idea of a human right. In contrast to more conventional philosophical studies, Charles Beitz takes a practical approach, looking at the history and political practice of human rights for guidance in understanding the central idea. Betiz presents a model of human rights as matters of international concern whose violation by governments can justify international protective and restorative action ranging from intervention to assistance. He proposes a schema for justifying human rights and applies it to several controversial cases--rights against poverty, rights to democracy, and the human rights of women.

Throughout, The Idea of Human Rights attends to some main reasons why people are skeptical about human rights, including the fear that human rights will be used by strong powers to advance their national interests. The book concludes by observing that contemporary human rights practice is vulnerable to several pathologies and argues the need for international collaboration to avoid them.

• Rank: #92759 in Books
• Published on: 2011-09-09
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 8.98" h x 5.83" w x .59" l, .85 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 256 pages