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Legal historian Samuel Moyn on why human rights are not enough
Moyn’s book, “Not Enough: Human Rights in an Unequal World,” explores how human rights connect to global economic fairness and inequality.
In the 1970s, governments began to focus on human rights, but interpreted them as including rich people's to get rich and buy everything, then took this as an excuse to disregard the other crucial goal of reducing economic inequality.
