Economic Rights

This edited volume offers new 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 new 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.

Spis treści:
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 womens 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.