Righting the economy : towards a people's recovery from economic and environmental crisis / edited by Marianna Leite and Matti Kohonen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Leite, Marianna, editor.

Kohonen, Matti, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human rights--Economic aspects.

Human rights.

Equality--Economic aspects.

Equality.

Environmental economics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxii, 232 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne : Agenda Publishing, 2024.

Summary:

Human rights and economics are not often spoken about in the same breath. Yet increasingly, human rights actors are calling for a shift towards a rights-based or human-rights economy. One that puts the economy truly at the service of communities contending with extreme social and economic inequality, climate catastrophe and corporate abuses.<br><br>The economies we live in structure our daily experiences and represent systems which can profoundly affect our ability to enjoy our rights to decent work, adequate healthcare, political participation, freedom from violence and more. This book systematizes academic and practitioners' analyses and experiences, drawing from different epistemologies, literatures and case studies, to flesh out what a rights-based economy would look like, and the tools and actions - economic, legal, environmental and social - needed to get there.

Contents:

Intro

Righting the Economy

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Acknowledgements

Foreword by Tomás Pascual Ricke

Human Rights Economy for People and the Planet: Framing the Contours of an Approach by Jyoti Sanghera

Re-imagining the economy for economic and social rights, and development

Key elements of the Human Rights Economy

What changes are needed?

What comes next?

Contributors

1 Introduction: what it means to "right the economy" and why we need to do it now

Rights-Based Economies: disrupting neoliberalism

Emergence of a Rights-Based Economy

The way forward: why a Rights-Based Economy?

Outline of the book

Part I - Framing the Economy

2 Towards a Rights-Based Economy: post-growth economics and the future of welfare

Introduction

False universality

The limits of growth

The Earth's boundaries

Environmental destruction and poverty

The unfulfilled promise of "green growth"

From overconsumption to the norm of sufficiency

The broken compass

Globalization: maximizing efficiency gains through trade and investment

Creating value by commodifying life

The state-market duopoly and the capture of democracy

Conclusion

3 The Center for Economic and Social Rights' journey to advance a Rights-Based Economy

CESR's efforts to articulate and catalyse a Rights-Based Economy

Origin of the work on the RBE

CESR's vision and work to advance an RBE

Alternative models that appear to be gaining more traction

Degrowth

Global Public Investment (GPI)

Eco-social contract

Social and solidarity economy (SSE)

Feminist care economy

Overlaps and divergences between alternatives models and human rights

Taking this work forward

4 Business and human rights: from "tokenism" to "centring" rights and rights-holders

Introduction.

Embedded liberalism and polycentric governance in the neoliberal market economy

The theory and practice of HRDD

Feijão Dam disaster, Brazil

Juukan Gorge destruction, Australia

Reimagining the corporate responsibility

Centring rights-holders in HRDD processes

Moving beyond "do no harm"

5 A human rights economy approach as the basis for a global fiscal architecture

International commitments to tackle tax-related illicit financial flows

International tax reform and human rights

International tax governance

Beneficial ownership registry

Regulation of enablers

International tax treaties in a human rights context

Conclusion and recommendations

6 Macroeconomic policy and development agenda for a Rights-Based Economy

Macroeconomic policy for an RBE

Monetary policy, exchange rate and inflation policy in an RBE

Fiscal policy for an RBE

Economic development for an RBE

Mission-oriented RBE

Chapter 7

Governing regimes for sovereign financing

Sovereign financing, financial complicity and human rights

Official financiers and complicity for human rights violations

Complicity of official financiers

International law (states)

International law (international organizations)

Accountability mechanisms

Internal frameworks of accountability

External frameworks of accountability

Part II - Transforming the Economy

8 Illicit financial flows, tax havens and the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights

African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights

Peoples' rights in the African Charter: a tool to combat illicit financial flows

Article 21: the right to dispose of wealth and natural resources in the exclusive interests of the people

Article 29(6): duty to pay tax.

The African Commission's response to illicit financial flows

The African Commission: strategic interventions to address illicit financial flows?

Missed opportunities for norm elaboration on illicit financial flows as a human rights violation

Concluding observations and recommendations on the periodic report submitted by Mauritius and the December 2017 press statement on the Paradise Papers

Implementation of the fiscal reporting requirements in the 2018 "State reporting guidelines"

Why did the African Commission miss these opportunities?

How could a special mechanism on human rights and illicit financial flows at the African Commission turn the tide?

9 Social and solidarity economy as an alternative economy for the protection of human rights

Why and how does neoliberalism negatively affect human rights?

Alternative economies and human rights

How can the SSE contribute to protecting and realizing human rights?

10 Judicial enforcement of socio-economic rights as a way to challenge neoliberalism: post-2008 austerity in Europe

Two key tenets of neoliberalism

The role of courts

Socio-economic rights adjudication as a challenge to neoliberalism

Post-2008 austerity cases as first steps

11 Health and human rights: what are the lessons from the Covid-19 pandemic?

From universal healthcare to universal health coverage: the link to neoliberal policy-making?

Covid-19, public health and the fatal effects of austerity

12 From recovery to transformation? Assessing Argentina's Covid-19 economic response through a feminist lens

Between challenges and opportunities: can the response to the pandemic have transformative power?.

The Mesa Interministerial de Políticas de Cuidado: shifting the paradigm?

From mainstreaming to institutionalization: a necessary but not sufficient condition for transformation

13 A feminist and decolonial Global Green New Deal: principles, paradigms and systemic transformations

Systemic inequalities in the world economic order

Principles, policy paradigms and decolonial futures

A Rights-Based Economy as a foundation for a GGND

Structural feminism

Common but differentiated responsibilities

Centring on public systems and services

Austerity violates economic and social rights

From debt colonialism to debt justice

Tax justice is decolonial reclamation

Decolonizing economics: how we think is at the root of our crises

Decolonial futures

14 Conclusion: "righting the economy" and building on plural and decolonial models to curtail the effects of negative corporate practice

Reassembling alternative economies

Feminist economics and care economies

Degrowth, post-growth and post-extractivism

Social and Solidarity Economies

Decommodification of the commons

Buen vivir and ecological democracy

The role of the state as enabler of human-rights-centred transformations

Conclusion: way forward and recommendation for potential future work

References

Index.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 19 Dec 2024).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781788216883

1788216881

9781788216890

178821689X

OCLC:

1412620141