Economic rights : conceptual, measurement, and policy issues /

Economic rights : conceptual, measurement, and policy issues /

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Imprint:	New York : Cambridge University Press, ©2007.
Description:	1 online resource : illustrations
Language:	English
Subject:	Distributive justice. Human rights. Basic needs. Economic policy. Social policy. Basic needs. Distributive justice. Economic policy. Human rights. Social policy. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11813019

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Other authors / contributors:	Hertel, Shareen. Minkler, Lanse.
ISBN:	1281040533 9781281040534 9780511333613 0511333617 9780521870559 0521870550 9780521690829 052169082X 9780511335471 0511335474
Notes:	Title from PDF title page (viewed Nov. 30, 2009). Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	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.
Other form:	Print version: Economic rights. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, ©2007 9780521870559

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Summary:	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.
Item Description:	Title from PDF title page (viewed Nov. 30, 2009).
Physical Description:	1 online resource : illustrations
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:	1281040533 9781281040534 9780511333613 0511333617 9780521870559 0521870550 9780521690829 052169082X 9780511335471 0511335474