Essay Abstract Pogge's GRT: Emma Fauquier

Hi Everyone!

I too will be discussing Pogge's suggestion of a Global Resource Tax. For the first half of the paper I am going to discuss Pogge's position and the nature of his position in terms of cosmopolitanism. I will then introduce the concept of his GRT and discuss what this is, and why this is infact relevant to cosmopolitan thought. What Pogge has to say about why we should have a GRT and the nature of the GRT (what was the development of a GRT in repsonse to), and what Pogge is defending with the application of the GRT ("A plausibble conception of global justice which must be sensitive to international social and economic inequalities) is what I will hopefully be able to address in the first 2,500 words.

The second half of the paper I will introduce the terms viability and justifiability and what it means for the GRT to in fact be viable (what needs to be in place or what needs to occur, or how things should be in order for this GRT to be viable). Will it be difficult to have a GRT and what would it take in orderto make it NOT difficult to have this. And finally, I'll examine the possible problems that may arise and issues that Pogge has overlooked.

For those of you who are doing Pogge as well, did you want to perhaps get together at all and brainstorm, just to get some more ideas for our own papers? Cheers!