The age of human rights has been kindest towards the rich. Even while state violations of politics rights garnered unprecedented attention because of human rights campaigns, a commitment to materials equality vanished. In its place, market fundamentalism has surfaced as the dominating force in nationwide and global economies. In this provocative reserve, Samuel Moyn analyzes how and just why we thought we would make human privileges our highest ideals while simultaneously neglecting the needs of a broader sociable and financial about Not Enough: Human Rights in an Unequal Globe justice.

In a pioneering history of rights stretching back to the Bible, INSUFFICIENT charts how twentieth-century welfare states, concerned about both abject poverty and soaring wealth, resolved to satisfy their citizens’ most elementary needs without forgetting to contain how much the wealthy could tower over the others. In the wake of two world wars and the collapse of empires, new states tried to take welfare beyond its unique European and American homelands and went so far as to challenge inequality on a global range. But their programs were foiled like a neoliberal trust in markets triumphed instead.

Moyn areas the career of the human rights movement in relation to this disturbing shift through the egalitarian politics of yesterday towards 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 found look for remedies for indigence without difficult wealth, Not Enough calls for more ambitious ideals and movements to accomplish a humane and equitable globe.