Book Review: The Morals of the Market: Human Rights and the Rise of Neoliberalism

Each January, at the time of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Oxfam publishes new statistics showing that the wealth of an absurdly small number of individuals is roughly equal to that of an absurdly large number of others. In 2019, these figures were 26 people and 3.8 billion people respectively. In the years since the financial crisis of 2007-08, such absurdities have come to signify the economic inequalities which social movements worldwide have increasingly found common ground in opposing. In understanding the changes in governance that permitted