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1 author picked Faces of Hunger as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Robin loves the way that this book displays how even a Kantian basis (not home territory for him) shows why poverty should not be tolerated.
It underlines how extreme poverty undermines the exercise of rational agency, and thus the proper functioning of human beings.
Onora O’Neill argues cogently that morality precludes the employment of force or fraud, and gives rise to universal principles applicable both within and between societies. Population policies, for example, should depend on the informed consent of those affected.
From Robin's list on development economics and ethics are intertwined.
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