Charles Kenny's 6 favorite books

Charles Kenny, previously a senior economist at the World Bank, is now a senior fellow at the Center for Global Development and a columnist for Bloomberg Businessweek and Foreign Policy magazines.

Kenny's new book is The Upside of Down: Why the Rise of the Rest is Good for the West.

One of his six favorite books, as shared at The Week magazine:

Inventing Human Rights by Lynn Hunt

Human rights as we understand them today were conceived during the French Revolution. Hunt explores what lay behind their creation and how that history has shaped the pursuit of individual liberties. However often declarations of rights are ignored, they increasingly define the norm against which leaders are judged wanting — and that itself is evidence of progress.

Read about another book on the list.

The Page 69 Test: Inventing Human Rights.

--Marshal Zeringue