World poverty, positive duties, and the overdemandingness objection

Politics, Philosophy and Economics

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 308-327

  Sonderholm, Jorn ^a  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

global justice; libertarianism; Political philosophy; positive duties; the overdemandingness objection

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879943234     PISSN: 1470594X     EISSN: 17413060     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1470594X12447779     Document Type: Article

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