In advocating social and economic rights to rectify the inequality and economic insecurity that has 'laid the groundwork for popular revolt', and in calling on the international financial institutions to forestall such revolt, Alston's new agenda for human rights ultimately remains consistent with previous attempts to moralise capitalism and pacify the 'revolt of the masses', which was the central concern of neoliberalism in the middle of the twentieth century.

Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, loc. 456