Economic Liberties and Human Rights

ISBN-13: 9781032092621 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 350 str.

Jahel Queralt; Bas Van Der Vossen

Opis

This book seeks to kick-start the debate on the moral and legal status of economic liberties as human rights. It brings together contributors from a diverse set of backgrounds to investigate whether economic liberties should be considered human rights, and to address this question at both the theoretical and practical level.

Spis treści

1. Introduction

Jahel Queralt and Bas van der Vossen

Part I: Economic Liberties and International Law

2. Property Rights as Human Rights

José Alvarez

3. In What Sense are Economic Rights Human Rights? Departing from their Naturalistic Reading in International Human Rights Law

Samantha Besson

4. Property’s Relation to Human Rights

Carol M. Rose

Part II: 　Economic Liberties, Growth, and Human Rights　

5. Global Justice and Economic Growth: Ignoring the Only Thing that Works

Dan Moller

6. Entrepreneurial Rights as Basic Rights

Francis Cheneval

7. International Law, Public Reason, and Productive Rights

Fernando Tesón

Part III: 　Economic Liberties as Human Rights

8. Making a Living: The Human Right to Livelihood

Amanda Greene

9. The Right to Own the Means of Production

Christopher Freiman and John Thrasher

10. A Claim to Own Productive Property

Nien-hê Hsieh

12. Creativity, Economic Freedom, and Human Rights

Robert Cooter and Benjamin Chen

Part IV: Critical Views

11. Economic Rights as Human Rights: Commodification and Moral Parochialism

Daniel Attas

12. How Fundamental is the Right to Freedom of Exchange?

Rowan Cruft

Part V: 　Economic Liberties in Practice

13. Economic Rights of The Informal Self-Employed: Three Urban Cases

Martha Chen

14. Addressing Land Rights in the Human Rights Framework

Karol C. Boudreaux　

O autorze

Jahel Queralt is a Serra Hunter Lecturer in Law at Pompeu Fabra University. Previously, she has been a postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for Advanced Studies Justitia Amplificata at the Goethe-Universität of Frankfurt and at the Ethik Zentrum at the University of Zurich. Her research interests include liberalism, distributive justice, productive justice and human rights. Her work has appeared in journals such as Law and Philosophy, Ratio Juris, and Analyse und Kritik.

Bas van der Vossen is Associate Professor in the Smith Institute of Political Economy and Philosophy, and the Philosophy Department at Chapman University. His research is in political philosophy. He’s the co-author of　In Defense of Openness, with Jason Brennan (2018) and Debating Humanitarian Intervention, with Fernando Tesón (2017) and co-edited the Routledge Handbook of Libertarianism (Routledge, 2017). He is currently an Associate Editor of the journal Social Philosophy and Policy. Bas earned his DPhil from the University of Oxford.