International justice and the third world: studies in the philosophy of development

Abstract

This book consists of eight papers which discuss notions of global justice and explore their implications for the Third World. They relate Third World development to sustainability, issues of gender, environmentalism and Third World debt, questioning throughout the sufficiency of market mechanisms to cope with these issues. The ability of Liberal and Marxist theories to account for global justice is considered, and various theoretical models of development are critically examined. As many millions of women in the Third World suffer special oppression, it is stressed that any adequate theory must respond to their plight.