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THE COMMONWEALTH OF LIFE
Contents

Foreword
Preface to the First Edition
Preface to the Second Edition

Part I: Progress and the Commonwealth of Life

1. Duties Beyond Borders

• Self-Preservation
• Equality
• The Self
• Neoclassical Economics
• Sustainable Development
• Capability Theories
• The Tripartite-rights-based Conception
• Objections to the Tripartite-rights Conception
• Moral Imperialism
• The Tyranny of Individualism
  

2. Duties Beyond the Present and Beyond Persons

• Stewardship
• The Commonwealth of Life
• The Golden Rule
• Justice as Treating Equals Equally
• How we Stayed Stuck
• Duties to Animals who are not Humans
• Animals in our Control
• Animals in the Wild
• Duties to Natural Systems
• Framing the Relationship between Humans and Nature
• Choosing a Framework from the Perspective of the Commonwealth of Life
• The Construction of Difference
• Objections to the Commonwealth of Life
• Is Life a Commonwealth?

Part 11: Fiduciary Institutions

3. Stewardship Economics

• Current Economics
• Stewardship Economics
• What is an Economy For?
• Where does, and how should, the Economy fit in the World's Biophysical Systems?
• How much Economic Growth is Enough?
• How should we Think about the Byproducts of Economic Production?
• How should we Think about the Future?
• How can we Generate the Necessary Institutions for Markets to Operate Correctly?
• Stewardship Economics Contrasted to Sustainability
• Objections to Stewardship Economics

4. Government as Trustee

• The Trust Model
• Government as Trustee
• Trustee and Neo-classical Conceptions Contrasted
• Defending the Trust Conception
• Motivating the Trustee
• Big Brother Government
• Trusteeship and Liberty

5. Civil Society and the Commonwealth of Life

• Ricocheting between State and Market
• Civil Society Defined
• Constructing a Civil Society for Stewardship
• Marketable Private-property Rights
• A Fiduciary Civil Society
• Private Property
• Property as Rights
• Property as a Public Trust
• Objections
• Confiscation
• Feasibility
• Cost and Compensation

Part III: Transparent Sovereignty

6. Global Ethics and Fiduciary States

• A Community of Fiduciary States
• Contrasts
• Realism
• The Autonomy of States
• Trading States
• Humanitarianism
• Defending the Fiduciary Conception

7. The Nation and the World

• Assessing the Basic Rights
• Growth Efficiency
• Assessing Ecological Efficiency
• Institutional Design
• Regulations and Incentives
• A Council of Stewardship Advisors
• Changing or Expanding the Indicators
• Tax Bads not Goods
• Creating Incentives
• Cosmopolitan Education and Research
• Population and Immigration
• The Annual Report of the World's Trustees
• The World
• Securing Peace
• Foreign Economic Assistance
• Trade
• International Taxes
• A Declaration of Stewardship
• Listing Nonreporting Nations
• Relying on the Independents
• The World Court

8. Are There Any Natural Resources

9. Epilogue

10. Bibliography

11. Index

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