We explore the idea that the gravest deficits in freedom are intrinsically linked to poverty, impacting individuals and nations worldwide. We also examine the global innovation regime's crucial role in shaping progress and human development. International impact funds encourage and reward innovations based on their social benefits, potentially revolutionizing the current innovation regime. Towards the end of the conversation, we briefly discuss the work of John Rawls and the theory of justice as fairness, which describes a society of free citizens holding equal basic rights and cooperating within an egalitarian economic system.

Thomas Pogge is the Leitner Professor of Philosophy and International Affairs at Yale University. He has has authored many influential books on cosmopolitanism, global justice, and extreme poverty. @ThomasPogge

Resources:

• World Poverty and Human Rights
• John Rawls: His Life and Theory of Justice
• Health Impact Fund
• An Ecological Impact Fund

Key highlights

• Introduction – 00:24
• The poverty-freedom relationship – 03:12
• Is poverty a violation of human rights? – 06:52
• The urgency of development finance – 19:19
• Innovation and impact funds – 27:50
• Profits, patents, and incentives – 39:42
• Global justice and solidarity with strangers – 47:00
• John Rawls and a global theory of justice – 51:52

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