Borders, Movement, and Global Egalitarianism.
Despite their theoretical attractiveness, global egalitarian arguments for open borders face the worry that open borders would in fact exacerbate inequality. In this paper, I offer a response to such egalitarian consequentialist concerns. I argue that they fail to attend to the larger political and...
| Publicado en: | Res Publica (13564765) Vol. 31; no. 1; pp. 123 - 144 |
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