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The New Human Rights Movement

The New Human Rights Movement: Reinventing the Economy to End Oppression
Author
Peter Joseph
Published
2017
Pages
448
Recommended
Once
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Joseph, founder of the Zeitgeist Movement, argues that structural violence is a product of the market system itself and proposes replacing it with a resource-based economy.

Why it’s on the list: Named in the replies to @WillManidis asking for the single best book that explains an entire industry — a crowd-sourced list Kyle recovered by hand and saved.

Where I saw it: In the replies to @WillManidis asking “what is the single best book you can read that will explain an entire industry?” (June 2, 2025). Kyle recovered the reply list by hand and saved it to his “Books To Read” Apple Note; the full transcribed list lives on what is the single best book… (tweet).

Connections

  • what is the single best book… (tweet) — the thread this came out of; the full recovered list lives there.
  • Economic History — the frame the argument works in.
  • People Over Politics — the portfolio idea this sits closest to.