ABSTRACT
For the most part, arguments about international distributive justice focus upon two issues. First, should we apply principles of distributive justice to the international world? Some theorists, such as Hayek, answer that we should not simply because they believe that we should not apply the idea of distributive justice to any political community. Others are happy to use the idea of distributive justice within state boundaries but unwilling to see it extended beyond those boundaries. So a first issue is whether we should find the very idea of international distributive justice acceptable. If we should, a second issue is what we should recognize as the principles of international distributive justice. There are many competing theories of intranational distributive justice and there is no reason to suppose that any fewer theories are available to us as potential principles of international distributive justice.
