Economic rights : conceptual, measurement, and policy issues / edited by Shareen Hertel, Lanse Minkler
This book assesses economic rights: defined as the right to a decent standard of living, the right to work, and the right to basic income support for people who cannot work. It explains how economic rights evolved historically, how they are measured, and how they can be implemented internationally....
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| 245 | 0 | 0 | |a Economic rights : conceptual, measurement, and policy issues / edited by Shareen Hertel, Lanse Minkler |
| 260 | |a Cambridge |a New York |b Cambridge University Press |c c2007 | ||
| 300 | |a xv, 403 p. |b ill. |c 24 cm | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a 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 | |
| 520 | |a This book assesses economic rights: defined as the right to a decent standard of living, the right to work, and the right to basic income support for people who cannot work. It explains how economic rights evolved historically, how they are measured, and how they can be implemented internationally. The book includes chapters by leading scholars in economics, law, and political science. Unlike many other books on the subject, this one includes a substantial introduction and is tightly organized around three themes: concepts, measurement, and policy implementation of economic rights. | ||
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