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3Solving Problems Associated with the Brain Drain: Fair Contracts, Legitimate States, and Appropriate Policy MeasuresMoral Philosophy and Politics 3 (1). 2016.
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29What should be done to address losses associated with ‘medical brain drain’?Journal of Medical Ethics 43 (8): 558-559. 2017.
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On the Moral Importance of NeedsDissertation, Duke University. 1993.What sort of moral importance do people's needs have? Can people's needs defensibly make claims on anyone ? Recent arguments concerning the moral importance of needs adopt a distinctive approach: the importance of needs is evaluated in terms of how needs fare in contests with preferences or desires in distributive contexts. I suggest some explanations for this move, but argue that the moral importance of needs is not best evaluated using this strategy. Rather, whether needs can trump, or in othe…Read more
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85Braybrooke on NeedsEthics 104 (4): 811-823. 1994.In 'Meeting Needs', Braybrooke argues that a new and improved version of utilitarianism can be constructed around making a priority of satisfying needs. In this paper I concentrate on Braybrooke's suggestion about the method for determining needs, and more generally, the method of settling issues concerning matters of need. (This emphasis is chosen since these problems are most devastating to his project as currently formulated.) I argue that Braybrooke's method is seriously flawed. Braybrooke b…Read more
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16The health impact fund: how to make new medicines accessible to allIn S. R. Benatar & Gillian Brock (eds.), Global Health and Global Health Ethics, Cambridge University Press. pp. 241--250. 2011.
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1International aid and global healthIn S. R. Benatar & Gillian Brock (eds.), Global Health and Global Health Ethics, Cambridge University Press. pp. 184--197. 2011.
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4Values in global health governanceIn S. R. Benatar & Gillian Brock (eds.), Global Health and Global Health Ethics, Cambridge University Press. 2011.
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2Global health research: changing the agendaIn S. R. Benatar & Gillian Brock (eds.), Global Health and Global Health Ethics, Cambridge University Press. pp. 285--292. 2011.
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2The state of Global Health in a radically unequal World: patterns and prospectsIn S. R. Benatar & Gillian Brock (eds.), Global Health and Global Health Ethics, Cambridge University Press. 2011.
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3Biotechnology and global healthIn S. R. Benatar & Gillian Brock (eds.), Global Health and Global Health Ethics, Cambridge University Press. 2011.
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6The global crisis and global healthIn S. R. Benatar & Gillian Brock (eds.), Global Health and Global Health Ethics, Cambridge University Press. 2011.
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48International health inequalities and global justice: toward a middle groundIn S. R. Benatar & Gillian Brock (eds.), Global Health and Global Health Ethics, Cambridge University Press. pp. 97--107. 2011.Disturbing international inequalities in health abound. Life expectancy in Swaziland is half that in Japan. A child unfortunate enough to be born in Angola has 73 times as great a chance of dying before age 5 as a child born in Norway. A mother giving birth in southern sub-Saharan Africa has 100 times as great a chance of dying from her labor as one birthing in an industrialized country. For every mile one travels outward toward the Maryland suburbs from downtown Washington, DC on its undergroun…Read more
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50The morality of nationalismAustralasian Journal of Philosophy 79 (3). 2001.Book Information The Morality of Nationalism. Edited by R. McKim and J. McMahan. Oxford University Press. New York. 1997. Pp. xii + 371. Paperback, $42.95.
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3Sarah Fine and Lea Ypi, eds., Migration in Political Theory. Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 37 (4): 144-146. 2017.
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36How Should We Combat Corruption? Lessons from Theory and PracticeEthics and International Affairs 32 (1): 103-117. 2018.
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226Globalizing Justice: The Ethics of Poverty and PowerPhilosophical Review 122 (2): 318-322. 2013.
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13David Miller, Strangers in Our Midst: The Political Philosophy of Immigration. Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 37 (3): 126-128. 2017.
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39Fulfilling Obligations to the Poor: How Should we Decide among Plausible Options?Analysis 74 (1): 90-99. 2014.In Globalization and Global Justice , Nicole Hassoun offers advice on practical ways to fulfill obligations to the poor. Our recommendations must be well informed by empirical evidence, and so important research on poverty that suggests we sometimes focus inadvertently on the wrong objects in our attempted assistance efforts, deserves consideration here. We also need guidelines on how to choose from among plausible policy options on how to help the poor. I offer one and explain why some of Hasso…Read more
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7Feasibility, Nationalism, Migration, Justification, and Global Justice: Some Further Thoughts'Global Justice: Theory Practice Rhetoric 4 50-76. 2011.
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26Book ReviewsAndrew Kernohan,. Liberalism, Equality, and Cultural Oppression. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. 130 + xiv. $54. 95 (review)Ethics 111 (2): 414-419. 2001.
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41The Decent Life, Equality, Global Justice and the Role of the State: A Response to Landesman and HolderDiametros 31 157-174. 2012.Cindy Holder and Bruce Landesman pose several interesting challenges for my account of Global Justice. In this article I address their concerns by discussing the content of what we owe one another. When we appreciate all the components of what it is to have a decent life, this will commit us to a much richer picture of what we owe one another than is commonly assumed when talking of decent lives. There is also considerable scope for concern with inequality when that fuller picture is presented. …Read more
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66Future Generations, Natural Resources, and Property RightsEthics and the Environment 3 (2): 119-130. 1998.In an important recent article, "Contemporary Property Rights, Lockean Provisos, and the Interests of Future Generations, "Clark Wolf argues that sometimes the interests of future generations should take precedence over the claims of current property rights holders. Wolfs arguments concentrate on the genesis and nature of defensible property rights in various natural resources, and on the conditions under which morally unacceptable harm is caused to others. In this paper I explore two central se…Read more
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44Reforming Our Taxation Arrangements to Promote Global Gender JusticePhilosophical Topics 37 (2): 141-160. 2009.In this article I examine how reforming our international tax regime could be an important vehicle for realizing key aspects of global gender justice. Ensuring all,including and especially multinationals, pay their fair share of taxes is crucial to ensuring that all countries, especially developing countries, are able to fund education, job training, infrastructural development, programs which promote gender equity, and so forth, thereby enabling all countries to help themselves better. I discus…Read more
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12Distributive justiceIn Gerald F. Gaus & Fred D'Agostino (eds.), The Routledge companion to social and political philosophy, Routledge. pp. 444. 2013.
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107Needs-centered ethical theoryJournal of Value Inquiry 36 (4): 425-434. 2002.Our aims in this paper are: (1) to indicate some of the many ways in which needs are an important part of the moral landscape, (2) to show that the dominant contemporary moral theories cannot adequately capture the moral significance of needs, indeed, that the dominant theories are inadequate to the extent that they cannot accommodate the insights which attention to needs yield, (3) to offer some sketches that should be helpful to future cartographers charting the domain of morally significant n…Read more
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119Contemporary Cosmopolitanism: Some Current IssuesPhilosophy Compass 8 (8): 689-698. 2013.In this article, we survey some current debates among cosmopolitans and their critics. We begin by surveying some distinctions typically drawn among kinds of cosmopolitanisms, before canvassing some of the diverse varieties of cosmopolitan justice, exploring positions on the content of cosmopolitan duties of justice, and a prominent debate between cosmopolitans and defenders of statist accounts of global justice. We then explore some common concerns about cosmopolitanism – such as whether cosmop…Read more
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