Basic Rights
by Henry Shue · Henry Shue
Shue's philosophical case that subsistence rights stand alongside security and liberty as basic rights no other right can be enjoyed without. Readers will follow his correlative-duties framework and its bearing on foreign policy and global poverty obligations.
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