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The Morals of the Market: Human Rights and the Rise of Neoliberalism - Whyte, Jessica
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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 rights, they developed a distinctive account of human rights as tools to depoliticise civil society, protect private investments and ...

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The Morals of the Market: Human Rights and the Rise of Neoliberalism 2019, Verso

ISBN-13: 9781786633118

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