ABSTRACT
This article has three aims. First, it explains the rise of the concern for global justice and the idea that it is possible to influence the worldwide pattern of distribution and end poverty. Second, it sketches a brief history of the concept of ‘distributive justice’, 1 highlighting the role of the state as the agent of distributive justice and the difficulties that arise in extending the concept of distributive justice into the global realm. Third, it connects problems of distributive justice to problems of economic growth, capturing the political choices to be made in a trilemma derived from the development economist Dani Rodrik (2007).
