Economic rights : conceptual, measurement, and policy issues
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Economic rights : conceptual, measurement, and policy issues
Cambridge University Press, c2007
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
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.
Table of Contents
- Foreword
- Introduction: 1. Economic rights: the terrain Shareen Hertel and Lanse Minkler
- Part I. Concepts: 2. The West and economic rights Jack Donnelly
- 3. A needs-based approach to social and economic rights Wiktor Osiatynski
- 4. Economic rights in the knowledge economy: an instrumental justification Albino Barrera
- 5. 'None so poor that he is compelled to sell himself': democracy, subsistence, and basic income Michael Goodhart
- 6. Benchmarking the right to work Philip Harvey
- Part II. Measurement: 7. The status of efforts to monitor economic, social, and cultural rights Audrey R. Chapman
- 8. Measuring the progressive realization of economic and social rights Clair Apodaca
- 9. Economic rights, human development effort, and institutions Mwangi Samson Kimenyi
- 10. Measuring government effort to respect economic and social human rights: a peer benchmark David L. Cingranelli and David L. Richards
- 11. Government respect for women's economic rights: a cross-national analysis, 1981-2003 Shawna E. Sweeney
- Part III. Policy Issues: 12. Economic rights and extraterritorial obligations Sigrun I. Skogly and Mark Gibney
- 13. Millenium development goal 8: can it be an accountability framework for international human rights obligations? Sakiko Fukuda-Parr
- 14. The United States and international economic rights: law, social reality, and political choice David Forsythe
- 15. Public policy and economic rights in Ghana and Uganda Susan Dicklitch and Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann
- 16. Human rights as instruments of emancipation and economic development Kaushik Basu
- 17. Worker rights and economic development: the cases of occupational safety and health and child labor Peter Dorman.
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