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2 - Inequality, Neoliberalism, and Human Rights

from PART I - Economic and Social Rights under Neoliberalism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 July 2018

Gillian MacNaughton
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University of Massachusetts, Boston
Diane F. Frey
Affiliation:
San Francisco State University
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