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Not Enough: Human Rights in an Unequal World

Not Enough: Human Rights in an Unequal World

Moyn, Samuel

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General LawGeneral World HistorySocial Movements

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ISBN10: 0674241398
ISBN13: 9780674241398
Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr
Published: Sep 17 2019
Pages: 296
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.10
Language: English

No one has written with more penetrating skepticism about the history of human rights.
--Adam Kirsch, Wall Street Journal

Moyn breaks new ground in examining the relationship between human rights and economic fairness.
--George Soros

The age of human rights has been kindest to the rich. While state violations of political rights have garnered unprecedented attention in recent decades, a commitment to material equality has quietly disappeared. In its place, economic liberalization has emerged as the dominant force. In this provocative book, Samuel Moyn considers how and why we chose to make human rights our highest ideals while simultaneously neglecting the demands of broader social and economic justice.

Moyn places the human rights movement in relation to this disturbing shift and explores why the rise of human rights has occurred alongside exploding inequality.

Moyn asks whether human-rights theorists and advocates, in the quest to make the world better for all, have actually helped to make things worse... Sure to provoke a wider discussion.

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