Thomas Pogge Quotes About Trade
-
With the Health Impact Fund, the innovation is paid for separately, through publicly funded health impact rewards, and the product is sold at the cost of production to all. Here, the cruel injustice of preventing the poor from buying at cost - evidenced by today's suppression of the trade in generic versions of patented medicines - would no longer be needed.
→ -
Each powerful player, or coalition of players, will make concessions in areas where it has relatively less at stake in exchange for other such players making reciprocal concessions in other areas where it has relatively more at stake. Such trades are collectively rational insofar as they get each of the powerful players more of what it wants. But such trades are also dangerous because the whole international rule-system will become incoherent and therefore vulnerable to crises that will continue to become increasingly severe.
→ -
Our global institutional arrangements - the basic ground rules that govern our world economy - are human-made. They don't exist naturally, nor are they God-given. We make these rules, those of the WTO [World Trade Organization] Treaty for instance, which fill tens of thousands of pages. These words have been strung together by human beings and are also interpreted and enforced by human beings.
→
Related Authors
-
John Dewey Philosopher -
Michael Sandel Philosopher -
Immanuel Kant Philosopher -
Martha C. Nussbaum Philosopher -
Joseph Stiglitz Economist -
Jeffrey Sachs Economist -
Amartya Sen Economist -
Leila Janah Business person -
John Rawls Philosopher -
Edward Said Professor -
Thomas Nagel Philosopher -
Peter Singer Philosopher -
Robert Nozick Philosopher -
Iris Marion Young Political Scientist