ABSTRACT
Globalization-“the closer integration of the countries and peoples of the world which has been brought about by the enormous reduction of costs of transportation and communication, and the breaking down of artificial barriers to the flows of goods, services, capital, knowledge, and (to a lesser extent) people across borders” (Stiglitz 2003: 9)—has been a progressive feature of human development for a very long time, though it has been named and explicitly conceptualized only in the last half century or so. It has largely been analyzed in economic terms. While its cultural impact has not been entirely neglected the situation of displaced and disadvantaged individuals who have borne its costs has not been a matter of primary concern, and nor (more seriously perhaps) has the responsibility and complicity of those who have stood to profit from it. In the last few years ethics has been showing up sporadically in the discourse of globalization, from a number of different disciplinary directions-international relations, economics, political science, sociology. It deserves to engage the explicit interest of moral philosophers.
