Economic rights : conceptual, measurement, and policy issues / edited by Shareen Hertel, Lanse Minkler.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hertel, Shareen, editor.

Minkler, Lanse, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Distributive justice.

Human rights.

Basic needs.

Economic policy.

Social policy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 403 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2007.

System Details:

text file

PDF

Summary:

This edited volume offers scholarship on economic rights by leading scholars in the fields of economics, law, and political science. It analyzes the central features of economic rights: their conceptual, measurement, and policy dimensions. In its introduction, the book provides a conceptualization of economic rights based on a three-pronged definition: the right to a decent standard of living, the right to work, and the right to basic income support for people who cannot work. Subsequent chapters correct existing conceptual mistakes in the literature, provide new measurement techniques with country rankings, and analyze policy implementation at the international, regional, national, and local levels. While it forms a cohesive whole, the book is nevertheless rich in contending perspectives.

Contents:

Economic rights: the terrain / Shareen Hertel and Lanse Minkler

The west and economic rights / Jack Donnelly

Needs-based approach to social and economic rights / Wiktor Osiatynski

Economic rights in the knowledge economy: an instrumental justification / Albino Barrera

"None so poor that he is compelled to sell himself": democracy, subsistence, and basic income / Michael Goodhart

Benchmarking the right to work / Philip Harvey

The status of efforts to monitor economic, social, and cultural rights / Audrey R. Chapman

Measuring the progressive realization of economic and social rights / Clair Apodaca

Economic rights, human development effort, and institutions / Mwangi S. Kimenyi

Measuring government effort to respect economic and social human rights: a peer benchmark / David L. Cingranelli and David L. Richards

Government respect for women's economic rights: a cross-national analysis, 1981-2003 / Shawna E. Sweeney

Economic rights and extraterritorial obligations / Sigrun I. Skogly and Mark Gibney

International obligations for economic and social rights: the case of the millennium development goal eight / Sakiko Fukuda-Parr

The United States and international economic rights: law, social reality, and political choice / David P. Forsythe

Public policy and economic rights in Ghana and Uganda / Susan Dicklitch and Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann

Human rights as instruments of emancipation and economic development / Kaushik Basu

Worker rights and economic development: the cases of occupational safety and health and child labor / Peter Dorman

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Notes:

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ISBN:

9780511511257

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