Not Enough: Human Rights in an Unequal World Audiobook (Free)

The age of human rights has been kindest towards the rich. Even while condition violations of political rights garnered unparalleled attention due to human rights promotions, a commitment to material equality disappeared. In its place, market fundamentalism has surfaced as the prominent force in national and global economies. In this provocative publication, Samuel Moyn analyzes how and why we thought we would make human rights our highest ideals while simultaneously neglecting the needs of the broader interpersonal and financial about INSUFFICIENT: Human Rights in an Unequal Globe justice.

In a pioneering history of rights stretching back to the Bible, Not Enough charts how twentieth-century welfare expresses, worried about both abject poverty and soaring wealth, resolved to satisfy their citizens’ most basic needs without forgetting to contain just how much the rich could tower over the rest. In the wake of two globe wars and the collapse of empires, fresh states tried to consider welfare beyond its primary European and American homelands and proceeded to go so far as to challenge inequality on a worldwide scale. But their programs were foiled like a neoliberal trust in marketplaces triumphed instead.

Moyn places the career of the human being rights movement with regards to this troubling shift in the egalitarian politics of yesterday to the neoliberal globalization of today. Discovering why the rise of human being rights has occurred alongside long lasting and exploding inequality, and just why activists came to look for remedies for indigence without challenging wealth, Not Enough calls for even more ambitious ideals and motions to attain a humane and equitable globe.