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Dr Tadhg Ó Laoghaire's Outputs (9)

Business and Bleeding Hearts: Why Multinational Corporations Have a Responsibility to Encourage Cosmopolitan Concern (2024)
Journal Article
Ó Laoghaire, T. (2024). Business and Bleeding Hearts: Why Multinational Corporations Have a Responsibility to Encourage Cosmopolitan Concern. Global Justice: Theory Practice Rhetoric, 14(01), 124-150. https://doi.org/10.21248/gjn.14.01.248

When it comes to fulfilling our basic duties to distant others, we in the affluent world face a motivation gap; we consistently fall short of bearing even moderate costs for the sake of helping others secure basic minimums to which they are entitled.... Read More about Business and Bleeding Hearts: Why Multinational Corporations Have a Responsibility to Encourage Cosmopolitan Concern.

Let Slip the Dogs of Commerce: The Ethics of Voluntary Corporate Withdrawal in Response to War (2024)
Journal Article
Ó Laoghaire, T. (2024). Let Slip the Dogs of Commerce: The Ethics of Voluntary Corporate Withdrawal in Response to War. The Journal of Ethics, 28(1), 27-52. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10892-023-09467-0

Over 1000 companies have either curtailed or else completely ceased operations in Russia as a response to its invasion of Ukraine, a mass corporate exodus of a speed and scale which we’ve never seen. While corporate withdrawal appears to have conside... Read More about Let Slip the Dogs of Commerce: The Ethics of Voluntary Corporate Withdrawal in Response to War.

Inward internationalisation (2023)
Journal Article
Ó Laoghaire, T. (online). Inward internationalisation. Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, https://doi.org/10.1080/13698230.2023.2168439

Duties to address global injustices face a large motivation gap, particularly amongst those populations most capable of bearing the financial burdens of fulfiling them. This motivation gap is explained, at least in part, by the structure of the state... Read More about Inward internationalisation.

Why (Some) Corporations Have Positive Duties to (Some of) the Global Poor (2022)
Journal Article
Ó Laoghaire, T. (2023). Why (Some) Corporations Have Positive Duties to (Some of) the Global Poor. Journal of Business Ethics, 184(3), 741-755. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10551-022-05148-4

Many corporations are large, powerful, and wealthy. There are massive shortfalls of global justice, with hundreds of millions of people in the world living below the threshold of extreme poverty, and billions more living not far above that threshold.... Read More about Why (Some) Corporations Have Positive Duties to (Some of) the Global Poor.

Why Dependence Grounds Duties of Trade Justice (2020)
Journal Article
Ó Laoghaire, T. (2020). Why Dependence Grounds Duties of Trade Justice. Res Publica, 26(4), 461-479. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11158-020-09482-0

This essay asks what it is about the practice of trade that grounds duties of justice between states as trade partners. The answer advanced is that such duties are grounded in the dependence that trade generates. The essay puts forward four condition... Read More about Why Dependence Grounds Duties of Trade Justice.

Making offers they can't refuse: Consensus and domination in the WTO (2018)
Journal Article
Ó Laoghaire, T. (2018). Making offers they can't refuse: Consensus and domination in the WTO. Moral Philosophy and Politics, 5(2), 227-256. https://doi.org/10.1515/mopp-2018-0061

The World Trade Organisation (WTO), and the international trade regime within which it operates, is regularly evaluated in terms of distributive outcomes or opportunities. A less-established concern is the extent to which the institutional structure... Read More about Making offers they can't refuse: Consensus and domination in the WTO.