Poverty is an unnecessary form of human degradation and badly conceived economics. Our thesis is that poverty can be reduced, if not eradicated, both locally and globally. But this will occur only if we change our shared narratives about global free enterprise, remind ourselves that poverty is a system, and conceive of poverty alleviation as a "bottom-up" project. There is no "one size fits all" for poverty reduction. Rather, poverty is a system and must be addressed locally. It is our aim, as it is the aim of the United Nations, the World Bank, and many other organizations, to erase it from our vocabulary and from this planet.
With a series of case studies that accompany each chapter, this book should assist readers in thinking about poverty alleviation from a number of perspectives, from bottom-up entrepreneurial projects, local-corporate ventures, with public-private partnerships, from focused philanthropy, with education and health care initiatives, and agriculture reforms in rural communities, all with the aim of creating a win-win result for local and partnership individuals, organizations, and communities.
The book should be useful in various undergraduate and graduate courses on ethics, applied ethics, developing economic systems, and poverty.
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Patricia Werhane, Ph.D., is the Wicklander Chair Emerita at DePaul University and Ruffin Professor Emerita at the University of Virginia. Werhane is founding editor of Business Ethics Quarterly, a Rockefeller Fellow at Dartmouth, Visiting Professor at the University of Cambridge. In 2008 she was listed as one of the 100 most influential people in business ethics by Ethisphere Magazine. Professor Werhane is the author or editor of over 30 books including Adam Smith and his Legacy for Modern Capitalism and Moral Imagination and Management Decision-Making She is also the co-producer of an Emmy award-winning documentary series, Big Questions.
Gina Wolfe , Ph.D., is Professor Emerita of Catholic Theological Ethics at the Catholic Theological Union in Chicago and Senior Wicklander Fellow, DePaul University Institute for Business and Professional Ethics. She is co-author of Global Women Leaders: Breaking Boundaries and co-editor of Systems Thinking and Moral Imagination.
Lisa H. Newton, Ph.D., Professor Emerita in Philosophy from Fairfield University, Connecticut. Her books include Ethics and Sustainability: Sustainable Development and the Moral Life (2002), Business Ethics and the Natural Environment (2005), and several editions of Watersheds (cases in environmental ethics), Wake-Up Calls (with David Schmidt; cases in business ethics) and Taking Sides (ed., with Elaine Englehardt and Michael Pritchard, controversies in Business Ethics). A study in Agricultural Ethics, Urban Agriculture, is forthcoming 2020.
Inhalt
Introduction
Chapter 1 - Poverty is a System
Chapter 2 - Traditional Strategies for the Alleviation of Poverty
Chapter 3 - Mental Models and Contributing Biases on Global Poverty
Chapter 4 - Narratives of Multinational For-Profit Enterprises and Corporate Social Responsibility
Chapter 5 - Global Poverty and Moral Imagination
Chapter 6 - Institutional Barriers, Moral Risk and Transformative Business Ventures
Chapter 7 - Public-Private Partnerships and other Hybrid Models for Poverty Alleviation
Chapter 8 - Agriculture in the Developing World
Chapter 9 - Focused Philanthropy
Afterward
References