RT Article
T1 Let’s Talk Rights: Messages for the Just Corporation–Transforming the Economy Through the Language of Rights
JF Journal of business ethics
VO 78
IS 1
SP 247
OP 263
A1 Wettstein, Florian 1975-
LA English
YR 2008
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1785629433
AB Neoliberal globalization has not yielded the results it promised; global inequality has risen, poverty and hunger are still prevailing in large parts of this world. If this devastating situation shall be improved, economists must talk less about economic growth and more about people’s rights. The use of the language of rights will be key for making the economy work more in favor of the least advantaged in this world. Not only will it provide us with the vocabulary necessary to reframe such pressing global problems and to find adequate economic solutions; it will also deliver the basis for deriving according duties and duty-bearers – the language of rights is congruent with the language of justice and as such it is inevitably and at the same time the language of obligations. The language of obligations exposes the multinational corporation as one of the main agents of justice in the global economy. Taking distributive justice as a starting point for reflection, a consistent derivation of the multinational’s moral obligations must focus on capabilities rather than on causality. This will lead to a shift from merely passive to active duties and accordingly to a stronger emphasis on the corporation’s contribution to the realization of positive rights.
K1 Self-interest
K1 obligations of justice
K1 Multinational Corporation
K1 language of rights
K1 Justice
K1 Corporate Social Responsibility
DO 10.1007/s10551-007-9377-5