The Morals of the Market: Human Rights and the Rise of Neoliberalism

by Jessica Whyte

Book Overview

The fatal embrace of human rights and neoliberalism

Drawing on detailed archival research on the parallel histories of human rights and neoliberalism, Jessica Whyte uncovers the place of human rights in neoliberal attempts to develop a moral framework for a market society. In the wake of the Second World War, neoliberals saw demands for new rights to social welfare and self-determination as threats to "civilisation". Yet, rather than rejecting...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1786633116
• ISBN13: 9781786633118
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: Verso
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.1"