What is our ideal of justice? What can we do to make the world a better place here and now? Bridging these questions, this insightful study presents a conceptual framework for formulating action-guiding principles. Case studies from climate change and international taxation provide refreshing illustrations of how to use abstract values as inspiration while showing sensitivity to empirical facts.

Peter Dietsch, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Montreal

Can political philosophy enable progress on urgent global issues such as climate change? In this book, Sayegh both argues that it can and shows us how to do it by articulating a vision of political philosophy as ‘action guiding’. Deploying this philosophical method in analysis of tax competition, climate justice and carbon pricing, Sayegh brings fresh and significant insights. This book shows the power of philosophy when it is correctly married to empirical knowledge.

Catriona McKinnon, Centre for Climate and Justice, University of Reading