PHM-Exch> Food for an irreconcilable thought

[Claudio Schuftan]

Human Rights Reader 236

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*THE PROTECTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE MARKET FUNDAMENTALISM OF
GLOBALIZATION ARE IRRECONCILABLE.*


For the staunch proponents of the superiority of the marketplace to,
eventually one day, wield benign influence, they will have to be
disempowered, because they systematically oppose laws and regulations that
protect the public good and thus human rights.

In the name of human rights, isn’t there thus an ethical obligation to
actually guide the market’s invisible hand? Isn’t intervention, therefore,
legitimate when supply and demand dramatically go off-course to the
detriment of human rights?  Aren’t we supposed to (or expected to) question
the acquired, privileged rights of the elites and the standards of living
the same afford them?

For the full text of this Reader go to


http://www.socialmedicine.org/2010/03/29/human-rights/the-protection-of-human-rights-and-the-market-fundamentalism-of-globalization-are-irreconcilable/




Claudio
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