Coming from a thinker who described the authoritarian regime of Chile's General Pinochet as an economic and political 'miracle', this invocation of human rights appears out of place. After all, human rights NGOs came to prominence in the 1970s precisely for contesting the torture and disappearances that accompanied neoliberal shock treatment in the Southern Cone. According to a prominent critical view, neoliberal emphases on competitive markets and austerity were 'inherently inimical to the protection of human rights', resting on completely different normative foundations. As a recent primer on human rights puts it, 'neoliberalism is one logic in the world today; human rights is the other'.

Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, loc. 39