Better Read Than Dead Book Club: The Morals of the Market

This book club meeting will be held in-person at Offbeat Books!

If you purchase the book from us in-store, we are happy to offer you 15% off! If you prefer e-books or audiobooks, here are a couple options that are great alternatives to Amazon and Audible:

• E-books: Bookshop.org
• Audiobooks: LibroFM

Drawing on detailed archival research on the parallel histories of human rights and 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 threats to “civilisation”. Yet, rather than rejecting rights, they developed a distinctive account of human rights as tools to depoliticise civil society, protect private investments and shape liberal subjects.