The Cement of Humanity: The Power of Human Rights

In what may be his most important book yet, the Nobel Laureate presents an urgent reexamination of human rights to defend freedom and well-being across the world.

Amartya Sen, the world-renowned economist and tireless champion of the poor, is not content to rest on his laurels. Existentially concerned with the corrosion of human rights, Sen has crafted an impassioned manifesto whose ideas are vital to the flourishing of human civilization. The facts are stark: Seven hundred million people li...