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In the article “Lifeboat Ethics: the Case Against Helping the Poor”, the author Garrett Hardin raised the question that whether the rich countries should help people suffer from poverty. He claimed that the supporting strategies for the developing countries, including the World Food Bank could result in more severe recourse inadequate issue and other disasters. In addition, a large number of immigrants flood in the US could ruin the natural environment and social balance. In that case, the author argued that regardless of the current situation, privileged nations should not provide aid to people trapped within difficulties of the underdeveloped nations. Even though, his

The book is categorized into five sections: theological and ethical properties, basic assumptions of economics, macroeconomics, microeconomics, and international

Initially, the author provides two metaphors, the widely accepted spaceship metaphor and his own lifeboat metaphor, explicating why his lifeboat metaphor is more realistic. After that, the author elucidates to his audience how the rate of population growth in poorer countries is much greater than the rate of growth of rich countries, and how with the continuous provided aid, the rate would only continue to increase. Moreover, Hardin mentions the disadvantages of the proposed World Food Bank, and how it is run by selfish companies whose main aim is financial gains. Also, Hardin discusses how the poor countries’ planning is what got them to the stage they are at, and how they negatively affect the environment. Finally, the author debates whether there is a true benefit from immigration to rich countries, and identifies how it negatively affects the growth of the United

The author published this collection of essays in 2004, when he was approximately at the developed age of 47 years old. The essay can be seen as a nostalgic reflection back to his past, to one of the many worthwhile, valuable, and subtle lessons taught to him by his mother. The author perhaps wrote this specific essay to act as a catalyst for the audience to realize the larger injustices that happen to people around the world like the level of severity in poverty that exists in both undeveloped countries around the world and the ignored corners of our own backyards as a result of the greed and imperialism of capitalist nations and their consumerist ideals. The publishing of this book roughly coincides with the opening of hostilities when the United States invaded Iraq in 2003.

The author is able to draw his audience in emotionally by speaking of such countries, and how it eventually ties in to the United States, stating that “(if) a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich,” (3) concluding the connection between the U.S. and those countries who have a lower living standard.

Likewise and the topic of this paper Solomon provides a thorough discussion of the problems of the present global economy. In his essay Solomon provides three mind-wrenching questions that questions and supports his methods of economic reform. The first question of “is it possible to engage in the pursuit of wealth without succumbing to greed and selfishness?” brings the topic of morality when it comes to wealth (108). Sallie McFague brings an argument stating that human beings are people filled with emotions of self-interest and will do whatever it takes to become wealthy. In the grand scheme of things this innate self-interest that is within people makes it extremely tough for countries to follow certain Jewish laws that he provided. McFague’s solution of moving towards an ecological economic system makes it tough on countries as well because it will force them to forget about their self-interest and learn to understand that they are dependent upon each other. McFague states, “ecological economics claims we

Jan Narveson 's Moral Matters plays an important, if controversial role in the field of applied ethics. Narveson 's unique, contractarian approach analyzes ideas as diverse as suicide, abortion, sexual ethics and affirmative action. Amongst the more contentious aspects of the thoughts expressed in the book is his view of global poverty. Narveson extends foundationalist, anarcho-capitalist approach to this issue; arguing that while charity is morally virtuous, there is no moral obligation on the part of the global rich or developed nation to alleviate the global poor from their precarious position. He also argues that by continuing free trade, enough economic growth will occur to relieve the global poor regardless. *This essay will elaborate on Narveson 's position on global povery and criticize said position in the following aspects; *it 's counter intuitiveness*, *descent into skepticism or relativism* and a failure to account for the interconnectivity found in global financial institutions, *capitalism* and climate change.

John Komlos creditably about the topic is really high. He is a professor emeritus of economics and of economic history at the University of Munich and on top of that, he also taught at Harvard, Duke and the University of Vienna as well. Base on the author information from the article John Komlos is also the author of the new textbook, “What Every

What are some issues that threaten the immediate stability and balance of the world? War? Nukes? Global Warming? Economic fluctuations? The answer is none of the above. All of these are admissible issues, but they don’t come near to the immediate impact and effects that accompany world poverty. An estimated three billion people live on less than $2.50 a day, yet there hasn’t been any drastic actions taken to counteract this predicament in a sustaining manner (Shah). However, writers such as Peter Singer and Garrett Hardin are doing a stupendous job bringing this topic into the spotlight. Both “Lifeboat Ethics: the Case Against Helping the Poor,” and “The Singer Solution To World Poverty,” offer insight to this serious issue. Both authors

Within “Famine, Affluence, and Morality” Peter Singer delves into the topic of famine; specifically, the moral obligations individuals in affluent countries have to those who are suffering. In his example, Singer focuses on the population of East Bengal, and their struggle with famine and extreme poverty. Singer proposes that with enough aid from both individuals and various governments extreme poverty can be eradicated. Therefore, the question he presents is why poor people are dying while affluent people are spending excess money on luxuries? Singer argues that affluent people, living in affluent countries, are not helping developing countries by failing to give enough to alleviate extreme poverty.

At first, I thought that Sachs was trying hard to find a solution to end poverty but in some parts of the story, he would humble-brag about the number of places he been in. “I have visited and worked in more than a hundred countries with around 90 percent of the world’s population.” (Sachs, 289) But I still feel like Sach’s validity is to try to stop poverty because he was bragging but he had many arguments to stop impoverishment. U.S spends their money on the military to build up our army when we should spend it on feeding and supporting those who can’t support themselves (the poor). “$450 billion on military, and only $15 million to address the troubles with poverty.” My group picked this claim as our strongest because it spoke out to us and we understood what Sach was trying to tell us. He was trying to tell us that we are wasting money on terrorist than giving money to people in need. Another claim is, People aren’t aware of the amount of poverty in the world. “More than 20,000 people perished yesterday of extreme poverty.”(Sachs,287) 20,000 people are dying because they are poor and that is a great number of people, and we should realize that. The claims that my group and I found, all had a strong evidence to support

Sachs stated that, “the gulf between today’s rich and poor countries is therefore a new phenomenon, a yawning gap that open during the period of modern economic growth” (sachs 28). He also believes that the rich did not rob the poor. We live in a world where each countries develops at their own growth. However, many factor influence the economic growth of a county such as the government. According to Sachs he stated that the many made assumptions that the United States used military force and political strength during and after the era of colonialism to steal the wealth from the poorest region. Since sachs did not believe in any of these assumptions he used factual evidence to defend the assumption. If the gross world product had remained constantly

Bush’s unilateral approach to national security after 9/11 eventually led to gross economic repercussions, the shockwaves of which are still being felt today. In his article, “Smart Money,” which was published in 2003, Jeffrey Sachs muses about these potential repercussions of Americans invading Iraqi soil—hypotheses that in fact turned out to be all too true.

Jeffrey Sachs (n.d) has many titles like: economist, Professor, author, United Nations advisor, and more. His work in sustainable development led to the creation of his book The End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for Our Time (2005). This book is very criticized by Professor Easterly (2006), who is also an economist. Firstly, Easterly (2006) criticizes Sachs’ usage of the term “Big Push” to end poverty. According to Economics Concepts (n.d.), Big Push means “a certain minimum amount of resources must be devoted for developmental programs.” (Para. 1). According to Easterly (2006), “Sachs proposes the Big Push for poor

Lack of development in countries in the so-called `Third World' has many political and economical reasons. Historians explain the inadequacy of developing countries with the early imperialism and the resulting colonization of the South. Exploitation of mineral resources, deforestation, slavery, and the adaptation of foreign policies shaped the picture of today's suffering and struggling civilizations and natural rich continents. The omission of concessions and equal negotiations between dependency and supremacy give rise to the contrast of enormous resources and immense poverty in developing countries is. In the last years the outcry of justice and the emancipation of the Third World became louder throughout developing and industrialized