tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4058766287077382431.post5630424913099765502..comments2024-03-23T04:01:39.348-04:00Comments on Understanding Society: Global justiceDan Littlehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15953897221283103880noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4058766287077382431.post-9414427129866679092011-08-16T09:50:09.701-04:002011-08-16T09:50:09.701-04:00Systemic injustice also dampens growth by reducing...Systemic injustice also dampens growth by reducing aggregate consumption. The failure to make sufficient investment in pursuit of global justice over the past several decades has stunted the development of export markets which are sorely missed at this point in the economic cycle. All too often we have been willing to look away, and we are reaping what we largely failed to sow.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4058766287077382431.post-61522734886624994172011-08-16T07:44:00.171-04:002011-08-16T07:44:00.171-04:00Indeed! And here we should also mention Martha Nus...Indeed! And here we should also mention Martha Nussbaum's work on capabilities, notably in 'Women and Human Development'. On the basis of many years of talking with marginalised women from poor countries, Nussbaum derives a list of the key capabilities that we should all be entitled to. This seems to me to fit rather well with Habermas's discourse principle - that our ethics should be based on principles that we could all plausibly be persuaded to accept, in conditions of honest debate where unequal power is unable to shape the outcomes. Which of course has something in common with Rawls, too. But Nussbaum does something real with these rather abstract principles.Dave Elder-Vasshttp://www.eldervass.comnoreply@blogger.com