Globalization and International Development: The Ethical Issues

This new anthology offers a wide selection of readings addressing the contemporary moral issues that arise from the division between the Global North and South―“the problem of the color-line” that W.E.B. Du Bois identified at the beginning of the twentieth century and which, on a scale that Du Bois could not have foreseen, is the problem of the twenty-first. The book is interdisciplinary in scope. In addition to standard topical essays in ethical theory by philosophers such as Anthony Appiah, Martha Nussbaum, and Peter Singer, it contains essays from economists such as Amartya Sen, Joseph Stiglitz, and Thomas DeGregori, as well as current empirical data from the World Bank, IMF, United Nations, and other sources.

H.E. Baber is Professor of Philosophy at the University of San Diego and author of The Multicultural Mystique: The Liberal Case against Diversity.

Denise Dimon is Director of the Ahlers Center for International Business, as well as Associate Provost for International Affairs and Director of the International Center at the University of San Diego.