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This book is on tax justice and why it is important for peace, human rights, and a more sustainable future. It addresses the inequities that currently exist in the global tax system, and what can be done about it.

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This book is on tax justice and why it is important for peace, human rights, and a more sustainable future. It addresses the inequities that currently exist in the global tax system, and what can be done about it.
Autorenporträt
Thomas Pogge is Leitner Professor of Philosophy and International Affairs and founding Director of the Global Justice Program at Yale. He holds part-time positions at King's College, London and the Universities of Oslo and Central Lancashire. Professor Pogge is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science as well as President of Academics Stand Against Poverty (ASAP), an international network aiming to enhance the impact of scholars, teachers, and students on global poverty, and of Incentives for Global Health, a team effort toward developing a complement to the pharmaceutical patent regime that would improve access to advanced medicines for the poor worldwide (www.healthimpactfund.org). Professor Pogge's recent publications include Politics as Usual (Polity, 2010); World Poverty and Human Rights (Polity, 2008); John Rawls: His Life and Theory of Justice (Oxford, 2007); and Freedom from Poverty as a Human Right (Oxford & UNESCO, 2007). Krishen Mehta is a former partner with PricewaterhouseCoopers, and worked with them for almost 30 years in their NY, London, and Tokyo offices. He is an engineer by training, has an MBA, and is a Chartered Accountant. He serves on the Asia Advisory Council of Human Rights Watch, is on the Advisory Council of Aspen Institute's Business and Society Program, is Senior Adviser to the Tax Justice Network, and is a Senior Global Justice Fellow at Yale University.