Profiting from poverty

Canadian Journal of Philosophy 49 (3):341-367 (2019)
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ABSTRACTWe consider whether and under what conditions it is morally illicit to profit from poverty. We argue that when profit counterfactually depends on poverty, the agent making the profit is morally obliged to relinquish it. Finally, we argue that the people to whom the profit should be redirected are those on whom it counterfactually depends.

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Ole Koksvik
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