Research Catalog

Title

Human rights and economic inequalities / Edited by Gillian MacNaughton, Diane F. Frey and Catherine Porter.

Publication

Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021.

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Additional Authors

• MacNaughton, Gillian, 1961-
• Frey, Diane F.
• Porter, Catherine, 1972-

Description

xxv, 418 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

"Chapter 1 Introduction Gillian MacNaughton, Diane F. Frey and Catherine Porter I. Introduction Economic inequalities are among the greatest human rights challenges the world faces today. Over the past four decades of neoliberal policy dominance, economic inequalities have risen drastically in the vast majority of countries in the world (Alvaredo et al. 2018, 9). Over the same period, international human rights have risen to the become the primary ethical language and legal framework for justice. This Upendra Baxi labels the "Age of Human Rights" (2012, 1). For the first 30 years after adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) in 1948, the human rights agenda encompassed the ideal of equality, which coincided with the growing welfare state and the decolonization and "modernization" of low- and middle-income countries (Marshall 1950; Moyn 2018; Dehm 2019). Since the 1980s, however, the hegemonic rise of neoliberal ideology and policy has resulted in growing and now extreme economic inequalities (Harvey 2005). This trend is now widely acknowledged by scholars, policymakers and activists"--

Series Statement

Globalization and human rights

Uniform Title

Globalization and human rights (Cambridge, England)

Subject

• Human rights > Economic aspects
• Equality > Economic aspects
• Income distribution
• POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Call Number

JFE 21-8568

ISBN

• 9781316518694
• 1316518698

LCCN

2021026944

OCLC

1246285822

Title

Human rights and economic inequalities / Edited by Gillian MacNaughton, Diane F. Frey and Catherine Porter.

Publisher

Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Globalization and human rights

Globalization and human rights (Cambridge, England)

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

MacNaughton, Gillian, 1961- editor.

Frey, Diane F., editor.

Porter, Catherine, 1972- editor.

Other Form:

Online version: Human rights and economic inequalities 1. Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021 9781009006545 (DLC) 2021026945

Research Call Number

JFE 21-8568