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In not enough human rights in an unequal world moyn suggests that our current vocabularies of global justice above all our belief in the emancipatory potential of human rights need to be discarded if we are work to make our vastly unequal world more equal . The cardinal contribution of not enough human rights in an unequal world is the connection of human rights to inequality and to market fundamentalism and so the argument goes the connection is precisely that of a missed connection human rights might not have actively supported neoliberalism but they have also been comfortably symbiotic . Samuel moyns not enough human rights in an unequal world is as much about the present and the future as about the past it is a cri de coeur a lament about the narrowing objectives of human rights activists in todays political climate and a plea for them to mount a fundamental challenge to the forces that have brought about extremes of inequality within and among nations. Moyns new book not enough human rights in an unequal world might have a similar maybe an even stronger impact on the international legal discipline because of its original and provocative character while the last utopia focused on civil and political human rights not enough traces the rather unexplored history of economic and social rights