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The role of corporate citizens in fighting poverty: An ordonomic approach to global justice

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  • Pies, Ingo
  • Hielscher, Stefan

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Drawing on an ordonomic approach, this paper argues that a theory of global justice should incorporate as a pivotal cornerstone a theory of corporate citizenship which constructively addresses business firms as agents of social value creation. We argue that, instead of relying exclusively on arguments of obligation, a theory of global justice should primarily formulate arguments of prudence in order to live up to the fundamental incentive structures that govern modern competitive markets to which we owe much of our last two centuries' moral and material progress. We develop our argument with critical reference to Thomas Pogge's seminal work on global justice.

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  • Pies, Ingo & Hielscher, Stefan, 2008. "The role of corporate citizens in fighting poverty: An ordonomic approach to global justice," Discussion Papers 2008-10, Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg, Chair of Economic Ethics.
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    Keywords

    Global justice; development cooperation; development ethics; foreign aid; poverty reduction; ordonomics; social dilemma;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • A12 - General Economics and Teaching - - General Economics - - - Relation of Economics to Other Disciplines
    • A13 - General Economics and Teaching - - General Economics - - - Relation of Economics to Social Values
    • D02 - Microeconomics - - General - - - Institutions: Design, Formation, Operations, and Impact
    • D63 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
    • F02 - International Economics - - General - - - International Economic Order and Integration
    • F35 - International Economics - - International Finance - - - Foreign Aid
    • O40 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity - - - General

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