THE MORALS OF THE MARKET

The fatal embrace of human rights and neoliberalismDrawing on detailed archival research on the parallel histories of human rights a nd 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 thr eats to civilisation. Yet, rather than rejecting rights, they developed a distinctive account of human rights as tools to depoliti cise civil ...[Read more]