Thomas Pogge

About

Thomas Pogge is a professor associated with the Yale Philosophy Department, with a focus on global justice, health care justice, and political philosophy. His work includes publications on global justice, justice in health care, Rawls, Kant, and other areas of moral philosophy and ethics. Pogge has supervised doctoral dissertations and has been actively involved in research and public discussions on climate justice, global health, poverty, and ecological impacts. His recent activities include engaging in dialogues with the Supreme Court on climate justice, contributing to discussions on global structural reform, and exploring issues related to poverty, health, and environmental sustainability. His contributions extend to editing and authoring books and articles that address the moral and political challenges of global inequality and justice.

Research topics

• Political Science
• Law
• Sociology
• Computer Science
• Microeconomics
• Mechanical engineering
• Engineering
• Psychology
• Economics
• Physics

Selected publications

• An Ecological Impact Fund

  Green and Low-Carbon Economy · 2023 · 12 citations

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  The Ecological Impact Fund (EIF) is a proposed new international financing facility that would enable originators of innovative green technologies to exchange some of their monopoly privileges in return for impact rewards.The invited exchange would apply only in the lower-income countries: originators choosing to forgo their monopoly markups in this EIF Zone would receive annual premiums based on the emission reductions achieved with deployments of their “greenovation” in that EIF Zone.The EIF’s…

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• 6 MORALIZING HUMANITARIAN INTERVENTION: WHY JURYING FAILS AND HOW LAW CAN WORK

  New York University Press eBooks · 2022 · 10 citations

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  Thomas Franck believes that the strict constraints imposed by the U.N. Charter on military intervention have become too constrain ing and that, so long as the Charter remains unrevised, we should condone violations of these rules as legitimated by a jurying proc ess. The relevant U.N. Charter constraints he seeks to subvert are two. First, the Charter directs that [a] 11 Members shall refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force

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• 7. GROUP RIGHTS AND ETHNICITY

  New York University Press eBooks · 2020 · 10 citations

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• Just Rules for Innovative Pharmaceuticals

  Philosophies · 2022-07-12 · 7 citations

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  Globalized in 1995 through the TRIPs Agreement, humanity’s dominant mechanism for encouraging innovations involves 20-year product patents, whose monopoly features enable innovators to reap large markups or licensing fees from early users. Exclusive reliance on this reward mechanism in the pharmaceutical sector is morally problematic for two main reasons. First, it imposes a great burden on poor people who cannot afford to buy patented treatments at monopoly prices and whose specific health prob…

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• Parochialism, plutocracy, philanthropy and global justice: a dialogue

  Journal of Global Ethics · 2025-01-02 · 3 citations

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Frequent coauthors

• Andreas Føllesdal

  141 shared

• Andrew Williams

  Baidu (China)

  139 shared

• Leif Wenar

  University of Graz

  139 shared

• Adam Swift

  Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Philosophy

  139 shared

• Elizabeth Anderson

  Baidu (China)

  136 shared

• Stephen Darwall

  University of Graz

  136 shared

• Simon Caney

  Walter de Gruyter (Germany)

  136 shared

• Lukas H. Meyer

  136 shared

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