Top-down or bottom-up are phrases we hear and use often. We come across them in discussions centered on policy, economics, social change, and human rights. Understanding how someone uses them and in what context is important as it ultimately defines what policies we support, how we spend our money, how we treat our communities, and how we think society should work. The most accessible and empowering thing about human rights movements is that it is fundamentally a bottom up approach. Ishay, Hunt, and Cordova, who we have studied this semester, all have us as their target audience, discussing the nature of human rights movements as something utilizable by the majority of members in society. Stiglitz lacks this human rights perspective, as everything he sites in his book is fundamentally a top-down approach, siting only problems and solutions originating from the higher state level. As a result, his work does not qualify as a human rights approach to societal change. That being said, his perspective on the economic problems plaguing society are actually correct, and his call for change has the potential to work.