Globalization and International Development

Globalisation, the increasing transnational integration of economic and social institutions, poses some of the least tractable of moral dilemmas and demands some of the most vexed of political decisions. 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 colour-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 like Anthony Appiah, Martha Nussbaum, and Peter Singer, it contains essays from economists like Amartya Sen, Joseph Stiglitz, and Thomas DiGregori, as well as current empirical data from the World Bank, IMF, United Nations, and other sources.