The New Human Rights Movement: Reinventing the Economy to End Oppression

446 Pages·2017·3.09 MB·English

by  Peter Joseph

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T H E N E W
H U M A N
R I G H T S
M O V E M E N T

T H E N E W
H U M A N
R I G H T S
M O V E M E N T
REINVENTING the ECONOMY
to END OPPRESSION
P E T E R J O S E P H
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Peter Joseph, 1978- author.
Title: The new human rights movement : reinventing the economy to end
oppression / Peter Joseph.
Description: Dallas, TX : BenBella Books, 2017.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016043997 (print) | LCCN 2016059808 (ebook) | ISBN
9781942952657 (hardback) | ISBN 9781942952664 (electronic)
Subjects: LCSH: Human rights movements. | Human rights—Economic aspects. |
Business and politics. | BISAC: POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom &
Security / Human Rights. | POLITICAL SCIENCE / Economic Conditions. |
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness. | PHILOSOPHY / Social.
Classification: LCC JC571 .P47 2017 (print) | LCC JC571 (ebook) | DDC
330—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016043997
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To the unpersons,
those who embody the evidence of our grand social failures

Contents
Acknowledgments xi
Preface xiii
Introduction xvii
Chapter One: System-Bound: Realizing Relationships 1
Chapter Two: Beyond the Pale: Our Social Mythology 31
Chapter Three: Structural Bigotry: The Economics of Oppression 97
Chapter Four: Public Health: Spectrum of Disorder 157
Chapter Five: Designing Out: Where We Go from Here 237
Appendix A: Post-scarcity Potentials 301
Appendix B: Economic Calculation and Broad System
Conception 329
Glossary 343
Endnotes 365
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