 Ideas such as those of Nozick have only recently been applied to the global level. Bas van der Vossen and Jason Brennan (2018) have defended the thought that economic freedom would, if applied at the global level, lead to greater wealth—and greater human flourishing—than any attempt to pursue some particular pattern of wealth and poverty. In particular, they argue, social scientific data indicate that policy interventions designed to narrow the gap between the rich and the poor tends to do more harm than good; good intentions, they note, are inadequate to ensure good results. Loren Lomasky and Fernando Tesón (2015), similarly defend the thought that individual property rights would, if defended universally, lead to a significant reduction in global poverty. It is only by universalizing respect for individual property rights, they argue, that the global poverty can be reduced. 