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
Table of Contents:
  • 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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