God Bless the Child That's Got Its Own: The Economic Rights Debate

by Darryl M. Trimiew

Book Overview

Darryl Trimiew examines current and historical debates regarding economic rights. What is our obligation to the poor, and how are economic rights related to civil and political rights? Beginning with the debate that surrounded President Jimmy Carter's support of economic rights, Trimiew reviews and answers the objections of those who would deny economic rights, and in the process articulates the positions of such figures as Henry Shue, Alan Gewirth,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 078850357X
• ISBN13: 9780788503573
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.6" x 8.4"