The Power of Freedom: Uniting Human Rights and Development - Hardcover

Chauffour, Jean-Pierre

 
9781933995243: The Power of Freedom: Uniting Human Rights and Development
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1933995246 ISBN 13: 9781933995243
Publisher: Cato Institute, 2009

Synopsis

In this thought-provoking book, Jean-Pierre Chauffour argues that freedom in all its economic, civil, and political dimensions is the only internally consistent and mutually supportive way of thinking about development and human rights.

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From the Back Cover

It takes a courageous writer to take on the compassionate hearts and high hopes of those who argue there is a "human right to development," now enshrined in many United Nations agreements. Chaffour is such a writer. He points out that this idea of human rights is an intellectual dead end and has had no practical benefit for the world's poor. Worse, he argues, the "right to development" violates individual human rights in a way that makes development less likely rather than more. Nobody who has ever paid attention to the many concepts of human rights can afford to NOT read this book, which itself displays both a compassionate heart and a tough and incisive mind. Chaffour is admirably determined to be brutally honest about which ideas really do further the cause of poverty reduction and which do not.
William Easterly
Professor of Economics, New York University

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Publisher
Cato Institute
Publication date
2009
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1933995246
ISBN 13 
9781933995243
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
300