In Defense of Openness: Why Global Freedom Is the Humane Solution to Global Poverty

In Defense of Openness stresses that that there is overwhelming evidence that economic rights and freedom are necessary for development, and that global redistribution tends to hurt more than it helps. This book offers a new approach to global justice: We don't need to "save" the poor. The poor will save themselves, if we would only get out of their way and let them.

Bas van der Vossen is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Chapman University. He's the author of Debating Humanitarian Intervention (OUP, 2017), together with Fernando Teson, and has edited the Routledge Handbook of Libertarianism (Routledge, 2017), together with Jason Brennan and David Schmidtz.

Jason Brennan is the Flanagan Family Professor at Georgetown University. He is the author or co-author of nine books, including Against Democracy and When All Else Fails: Resistance, Violence, and State Injustice.