Thomas Pogge
contemporaryAnalytic Philosophyb. 1953
Thomas Pogge (born 1953) is a German-American political philosopher and Professor of Philosophy and International Affairs at Yale University, best known for his work on global justice and world poverty. A student of John Rawls, he argues that affluent nations bear a negative duty not to uphold global institutional arrangements that harm the poor, a position developed extensively in his landmark work World Poverty and Human Rights (2002).
Notable Achievements
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Developed the negative duty account of global poverty, arguing wealthy nations actively harm the poor through unjust global institutions
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Authored World Poverty and Human Rights (2002), a foundational text in global justice theory
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Proposed the Global Resources Dividend (GRD) as a concrete reform mechanism to fund poverty reduction
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Extended Rawlsian contractualism to the global sphere in Realizing Rawls (1989)
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Founded Academics Stand Against Poverty (ASAP), connecting academic global justice theory to policy advocacy