Book contents
- Human Rights and Economic Inequalities
- Reviews
- Globalization and Human Rights
- Human Rights and Economic Inequalities
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Boxes
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- Part I Conceptualizing and Measuring Human Rights and Economic Inequalities
- Part II Causes and Consequences of Economic Inequalities
- Part III Socioeconomic Rights and Economic Inequalities
- Index
- References
1 - Introduction
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 September 2021
- Human Rights and Economic Inequalities
- Reviews
- Globalization and Human Rights
- Human Rights and Economic Inequalities
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Boxes
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- Part I Conceptualizing and Measuring Human Rights and Economic Inequalities
- Part II Causes and Consequences of Economic Inequalities
- Part III Socioeconomic Rights and Economic Inequalities
- Index
- References
Summary
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; Harvey 2005). 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” (Baxi 2012, 1). The trend of rising economic inequalities in the age of human rights is not, however, inevitable. In 1948, when the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) was adopted, 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 1992 Moyn 2018; Dehm 2019). Today, extreme economic inequalities and their myriad negative impacts on human wellbeing provide compelling reasons to consider the potential of human rights to once again contribute to bring about a more economically equal and just world. This volume takes up that challenge.
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- Human Rights and Economic Inequalities , pp. 1 - 30Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021