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4 - What the UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies Tell Us about Economic Inequalities and Human Rights: An Empirical Analysis of Twenty Years of Practice

from Part I - Conceptualizing and Measuring Human Rights and Economic Inequalities

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 September 2021

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Sylvain Aubry ,
Katherine James ,
Lucy McKernan ,
Beth Munro  and
Caroline Noyrez
Edited by
Gillian MacNaughton ,
Diane Frey  and
Catherine Porter
Gillian MacNaughton
Affiliation:
University of Massachusetts, Boston
Diane Frey
Affiliation:
San Francisco State University
Catherine Porter
Affiliation:
Lancaster University
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Summary

Economic inequalities are increasingly prominent in public debates – from Thomas Piketty’s seminal Capital in the Twenty-First Century (Piketty 2014) and the subsequent creation of the World Inequality Database (Wid.World n.d.), to civil society reports such as that of Oxfam (Oxfam International 2019). In addition, major social movements of the last decade, including Tunisia’s 2011 revolution (Srebernik 2014) and the rise to power of demagogic leaders such as Donald Trump (Shiller 2016), have been attributed, at least in part, to economic inequalities.

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Human Rights and Economic Inequalities , pp. 85 - 114
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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