Towards a global social contract

Social Contract Theory in the Global Context*

Nicole Hassoun’s Globalization and Global Justice: Shrinking Distance, Expanding Obligations (2012) offers a novel argument for the existence of positive rights for the world’s poor, and explores institutional alternatives suitable for the realization of those rights. Hassoun’s argument is contractualist (in the broad sense), and makes the existence of positive rights depend upon the conditions...

Towards a Global Social Contract: Labour Rights for Legal Empowerment of The Poor

130 T he first is that governments and international organisations must address the decent work deficits of those who work informally, since the informal economy, characterized by low productivity , low earnings and high risks, has been growing worldwide, emerging in many new guises and in unexpected places. The second message is one of hope. It is about the new departure in international devel...

Towards a Global Social Support System: A Response to the Recent Commentaries

Beyond the Social Contract: Toward Global Justice

Towards achieving lasting healthcare reform: rethinking the American social contract.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. July 4, 1776.1