Thomas PoggeYale University | YU · Department of Philosophy
Thomas Pogge
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Thomas Pogge currently works at the Department of Philosophy, Yale University. Thomas does research in Social and Political Philosophy. Their most recent publication is 'Fighting global poverty'.
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This timely and interdisciplinary book is the first to examine mountain tourism and local communities with a pro-poor lens. By drawing on human geography, political and social science, ethics and moral philosophy and empirical research, the volume explores how mountain tourism can be used to fight poverty and inequality in mountain regions.
Mounta...
A free world is one in which human beings can live free, self-directed lives. A great obstacle to such a world is severe poverty, still blighting the lives of half of humankind. We have the resources, technologies, and administrative capacities to eradicate severe poverty, but doing so requires some restructuring of existing social arrangements. We...
Las sociedades más avanzadas de la actualidad se estructuran en torno a tres elementos normativos: el Estado de derecho, la satisfacción de las necesidades humanas básicas y la limitación de las desigualdades. Estos elementos están profundamente arraigados en la cultura, hasta el punto de que se espera que los ciudadanos subordinen plenamente sus d...
Pharmaceutical patents aggravate economic inequality. Some of this effects is missed by economists because they reduce economic to financial inequality.
The Ecological Impact Fund (EIF) is a proposed new international financing facility that would enable originators of innovative green technologies to exchange some of their monopoly privileges in return for impact rewards. The invited exchange would apply only in the lower-income countries: originators choosing to forgo their monopoly markups in th...
Ayant pris une portée globale en 1995 dans le cadre des accords ADPIC, les brevets de produit d’une durée de 20 ans constituent le système dominant de l’humanité pour encourager les innovations. Protégeant le monopole sur l’innovation, ce système permet aux innovateurs de récolter des marges importantes ou des frais de licence auprès des premiers u...
COVID-19 has highlighted the failure of the current monopoly market system of pharmaceutical industries to efficiently and equitably distribute lifesaving health commodities in a pandemic. The pre-purchasing of COVID-19 vaccines in 2021 by high income
countries (outside of the global coordinated effort called the COVAX facility) has led to
inequita...
Globalized in 1995 through the TRIPs Agreement, humanity’s dominant mechanism for encouraging innovations involves 20-year product patents, whose monopoly features enable innovators to reap large markups or licensing fees from early users. Exclusive reliance on this reward mechanism in the pharmaceutical sector is morally problematic for two main r...
Impact funds can help solve the world's ecological and health problems by enabling green-tech and pharmaceutical innovators to give up some of their monopoly rents in exchange for impact rewards based on the social benefits achieved with specific patentable innovations.
https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/J8fwT9cZd6x5eED3e/new-global-pools-im...
Globalized in 1995 through the TRIPs Agreement, humanity’s dominant mechanism for encouraging innovations involves 20-year product patents, whose monopoly features enable innovators to reap large markups or licensing fees from early users. Exclusive reliance on this reward mechanism in the pharmaceutical sector is morally problematic for two main r...
Domingo 31 de octubre de 2021-Perfil filosofía Para Políticos rePortaJe Jorge Fontevecchia-Usted dijo en una entrevis-ta que "probablemente ten-dremos una gran guerra nuclear antes de que pasemos a un orden mundial basado en la moral". ¿Se da aquello del teórico Mark Fisher acerca de que es más fácil pensar en el fin de la humanidad que en el fin d...
The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed grave structural faults in our global institutional architecture. We argue that political energies should now be focused on three main areas where transformative reorganizations are realistically achievable. In global health, we propose that monopoly patents be complemented by health impact rewards as an optional...
QUESTION: How can the dominant fiscal regime for mining, based on royalties and corporate income tax, be improved, in design, implementation and effectiveness, especially for resource-rich developing countries? Are there alternative options available to resource-rich countries to maximize the revenues from their mineral wealth?
PROPOSAL: Developing...
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Addressing global health is one of the largest challenges facing humanity in the 21st century, however, this task is becoming even more formidable with the accelerated destruction of the planet. Building on the success of the previous edition, the book outlines how progress towards improving global health relies on understanding its core social, ec...
The eighth annual Amartya Sen Prizes will be awarded in 2021 to the two best original essays examining one particular component of illicit financial flows, the resulting harms and possible avenues of reform. Entered essays should be about 7,000 to 9,000 words long. There is a first prize of $5,000 and a second prize of $3,000. Winning essays must b...
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Menschenrechte - und mit ihnen die Menschenwürde - sind weltweit in den Verfassungen zahlreicher Staaten verankert. Und dennoch werden sie immer wieder relativiert, sodass ihre Um- und Durchsetzung selbst in der Demokratie - dessen Grundlage die Menschenrechte darstellen - nicht mehr sichergestellt werden kann. Wirken sich direktdemokratische Entsc...
The question of what constitutes norms for global justice is of considerable concern for all those interested in world peace and cooperation. In order to define these global norms, Jean-Marc Coicaud, while working at the United Nations University, initiated a project centered around conversations with leading theorists and policy practitioners in g...
Many different indicators are used to monitor poverty and poverty-related deprivations. Two kinds of legitimacy worries may arise about any such indicator: one regarding its reliability as a measure of progress and another regarding the uses to which it is being put. This essay will touch upon both worries, beginning with the latter.
Peter Abelard (1079–1142 ce) was the most wide‐ranging philosopher of the twelfth century. He quickly established himself as a leading teacher of logic in and near Paris shortly after 1100. After his affair with Heloise, and his subsequent castration, Abelard became a monk, but he returned to teaching in the Paris schools until 1140, when his work...
The pharmaceutical industry has a poor reputation around the world. This is surprising because its products have a much more positive impact than those of other widely disliked industries such as arms, coal, and tobacco. Much public opinion about the pharmaceutical industry makes it sound as though its leaders are especially immoral in comparison t...
Many of our interactions in the twenty-first century - both good and bad - take place by means of institutions, technology and artefacts.We inhabit a world of implements, instruments, devices, systems, gadgets and infrastructures. Technology is not only something that we make but also something that in many ways makes us. The discipline of ethics m...
In this chapter I argue that we are violating the human rights of the world?s poor. To show this I proceed in two main steps. Section 2.1 sets forth a conception of what it means to violate a human right, arguing that ?human rights violation? is a relational predicate, involving right holders as well as duty bearers, with the latter playing an acti...
Though they improve upon the millennium development goals (MDGs), the new sustainable development goals (SDGs) have important draw-backs. First, in assessing present deprivations, they draw our attention to historical comparisons. Yet, that things were even worse before is morally irrelevant; what matters is how much better things could be now. Sec...
Governments and their international agencies (FAO, World Bank) conceive of the eradication of hunger and poverty as a worthy wish that will eventually be realized through economic growth. They also make great cosmetic efforts to present as good-looking trend pictures as they can. Citizens ought to insist that the eradication of severe deprivations...
The West African Ebola epidemic has created market demand for the rapid development of vaccines and therapeutics, but the current global patent system does not ensure that the poor will have access to these products.
Justice is predicated mainly of three kinds of iudicanda: subjects (persons and collectives), the conduct of subjects, and social rules. Recent discussions have focused on social justice, concerned with social rules. Here John Rawls's seminal theory has biased the discussion toward purely recipient-oriented theorizing, considering solely how human...
Despite some clear positives, the draft text of the Sustainable Development Goals does not fulfill its self-proclaimed purpose of inspiring and guiding a concerted international effort to eradicate severe poverty everywhere in all of its forms. We offer some critical comments on the proposed agreement and suggest 10 ways to embolden the goals and a...
Introduction Various human rights are widely recognised in codified and customary international law. These human rights promise all human beings protection against specific severe harms that might be inflicted on them domestically or by foreigners. Yet, international law also establishes and maintains institutional structures that greatly contribut...
This text is a revised version of the Kapuscinki Development Lecture that the author delivered in May 2015 in Bucharest and later updated after the COP21 December 2015 summit in Paris. It presents a critical assessment of the new global agenda on development - the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The most important criticism is that, like in t...
Dignity is not an independently existing thing, but an attribute – of human beings, for example. It is essential to our notion of dignity that it has two distinct but related meanings. Using one meaning, we say that each human being has an inherent dignity, which is inalienable and equal for all. Using the other meaning, we say that the dignity of...
The debate about the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which are to replace the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) when they expire in 2015, is moving very quickly. Weighing in on this debate, we argue that if the SDGs are to be as effective as they can realistically be, concrete responsibilities must be assigned to specific competent actors,...
A central set of questions in this volume is the extent to which law can and should help constitute identity as a basis for engendering a form of allegiance to the polity. In these concluding comments, I focus on how law constrains and structures human interactions to further illuminate how law, both in a domestic and in the international context,...
Much more than its domestic analogues, the contest over international rules and procedures is essentially confined to a small elite of agents—multinational corporations, industry associations, banks, hedge funds, billionaires—who can effectively influence the negotiating positions of the most powerful governments, foremost that of the United States...
Every day thousands of people die from poverty-related causes. Many of these deaths could be avoided if appropriate medical treatments were available to the world’s poor. Due to the current tructure of the international patent regime, they are not. Since the risks and costs associated with pharmaceutical innovation are extremely high, to incentivis...
Cardiovascular diseases represent the greatest burden of global disease. Spending on cardiovascular diseases is higher than for other diseases, with the majority being spent on drugs. Therefore, these drugs and these diseases are hugely important to health systems, society, and pharmaceutical companies. The Health Impact Fund represents a new mecha...
Various indices are used to track poverty, development, and gender equity at the population level. Some of them - the UNDP’s Human and Gender-Related Development Indices and the World Bank’s Poverty Index associated with the first Millennium Development Goal - have become highly influential. This paper argues that these prominent indices are deeply...
A high-level United Nations panel has proposed the adoption of 12 new Millennium Development Goals from 2015. The new goals suffer from the same key defects as the original ones; they are general wishes without concrete tasks and responsibilities assigned to specific competent actors, and they do not meet civil society aspirations for inequality re...
Benefit sharing provides an answer to a very specific problem; namely the exploitative use of Southern resources in Northern research and development. Its emergence in the context of the export of plants, animals and micro-organisms for commercial use in more affluent countries emphasises concerns regarding justice in exchange; those who contribute...
Some 18 million people die annually from poverty-related causes. Many more are suffering grievously from treatable medical conditions. These burdens can be substantially reduced by supplementing the rules governing pharmaceutical innovation. Established by the World Trade Organization's TRIPS Agreement, these rules cause advanced medicines to be pr...
We suggest how contemporary global institutions shaping the development, pricing and distribution of vaccines and drugs may be modified to deliver large improvements in health. To support a justice argument for such modification, we show how the current global economic order may contribute to perpetuating poverty and poor health in less-developed c...
A human rights violation involves unfulfilled human rights and a specific active causal relation of human agents to such non-fulfillment. This causal relation may be interactional; but it may also be institutional, as when agents collaborate in designing and imposing institutional arrangements that foreseeably and avoidably cause human rights to be...
This article offer reasons why academics should feel compelled to play a more direct role in the alleviation of global poverty, specifically through participation in a new international network, Academics Stand Against Poverty (ASAP). Academics have the specialized training and knowledge, and the societal role, that make them particularly well equi...
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New journal is born:
Dear friends,
We are launching an international journal, Academics Stand Against Poverty (website: www.journalasap.org), with the aim of supporting scholars, researchers, teachers & students in publishing their poverty-focused work in a scientific venue.
“Academics Stand Against Poverty” (ASAP; www.academicsstand.org) already exists as a fast-growing global association with 22 national & regional chapters. ASAP is trying its best to connect academics from many disciplines to collaborate toward poverty eradication.
We are well aware of the proliferation of journals. Ours will be distinguished through three important features: it will prioritize essays that are relevant to real-world poverty eradication, it will aim to include & support authors from the global South, & it will charge no fees from either authors or readers.
We already have an ISSN number & plans for the first two issues (Volume 1), which will contain about six essays each. To maintain a high standard, we need experts to help us select & develop high-quality manuscripts & also someone who can help us edit accepted papers. To recommend someone or to volunteer, please contact us at editor@journalasap.org
Thank you!!
The editorial team
Najid Ahmad, Pahlaj Moolio, Thomas Pogge
www.journalasap.org
