Pogge, Thomas
Thomas Pogge is a German philosopher and the Director of the Global Justice Program and Leitner Professor of Philosophy and International Affairs at Yale University.
Pogge’s World Poverty and Human Rights includes a number of original and substantial theses, the most notable being that people in wealthy Western liberal democracies (such as Western Europeans) are currently harming the world’s poor (like those in sub-Saharan Africa) especially through “resource” and “borrowing” privileges, which allow illegitimate political leaders to sell natural resources and to borrow money in the name of the country and its people.