Economic rights : conceptual, measurement, and policy issues /

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 conceptuali...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Hertel, Shareen, Minkler, Lanse
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Cambridge University Press, ©2007.
Temas:
Distributive justice.
Human rights.
Basic needs.
Economic policy.
Social policy.
Justice distributive.
Droits de l'homme (Droit international)
Besoins fondamentaux.
Politique économique.
Politique sociale.
public policy.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Economics > General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Reference.
Basic needs
Distributive justice
Economic policy
Human rights
Social policy
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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
  • Appendix.

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