Righting the Economy

Towards a People's Recovery from Economic and Environmental Crisis

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

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Human rights and economics are not often spoken about in the same breath. Yet increasingly, human rights actors are calling for a shift towards a rights-based or human-rights economy. One that puts the economy truly at the service of communities contending with extreme social and economic inequality, climate catastrophe and corporate abuses.The economies we live in structure our daily experiences and represent systems which can profoundly affect our ability to enjoy our rights to decent work, adequate healthcare, political participation, freedom from violence and more. This book systematizes academic and practitioners’ analyses and experiences, drawing from different epistemologies, literatures and case studies, to flesh out what a rights-based economy would look like, and the tools and actions – economic, legal, environmental and social – needed to get there.

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Utgivningsdatum2024-02-22
Mått156 x 234 x 18 mm
Vikt404 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor256
FörlagAgenda Publishing
ISBN9781788216876

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Matti Kohonen is executive director of the Financial Transparency Coalition, a group of 11 international civil society organisations. Before joining the FTC, he worked for Christian Aid, Oxfam and the Tax Justice Network. He holds a PhD in sociology from the London School of Economics and is the co-editor of Tax Justice: Putting Global Inequality on the Agenda (2009).Marianna Leite is ACT Alliance’s Global Advocacy and Development Policy Manager. As a lawyer, researcher and activist, she has over 15 years of professional experience across the legal, academic and development sectors. She holds a post-doctorate certificate in Human Rights and Democracy from the Faculty of Law of University of Coimbra and a PhD in Development Studies from Birkbeck, University of London.

Foreword by Tomás Pascual Ricke, Ambassador and Director of Human Rights, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of ChileHuman Rights Economy for People and the Planet: Framing the Contours of an Approach, Jyoti Sanghera1. Introduction: what it means to “right the economy” and why we need it nowMarianna Leite and Matti KohonenPart I Framing the economy2. Towards a Rights-Based Economy: post-growth economics and the future of welfareOlivier De Schutter3. The Center for Economic and Social Rights’ journey to advance a rights-based economyCenter for Economic and Social Rights4. Business and human rights: from “tokenism” to “centring” rights and rightsholdersSurya Deva and Harpreet Kaur5. A human rights economy approach as the basis for a global fiscal architectureAttiya Waris6. Macroeconomic policy and development agenda for a Rights-Based EconomyPedro Rossi7. Financial complicity and human rights: exploring the legal and policy landscape of responsibility for sovereign debtCeline Tan and Rafael Quintero GodinezPart II Transforming the economy8. Illicit financial flows, tax havens and the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights Asha Ramgobin9. Social and solidarity economy as an alternative economy for the protection of human rights Ilcheong Yi10. Judicial enforcement of socio-economic rights as a way to challenge neoliberalism: post-2008 austerity in Europe Kári Hólmar Ragnarsson11. Health and human rights: what are the lessons from the Covid-19 pandemic? Jasmine Gideon and Kate Bayliss12. From recovery to transformation? Assessing Argentina’s Covid-19 economic response through a feminist lensMagalí Brosio and Edurne Cárdenas13. A feminist and decolonial global Green New Deal: principles, paradigms and systemic transformationsBhumika Muchhala14. Conclusion: “righting the economy” and building on plural and decolonial models to curtail the effects of negative corporate practiceMatti Kohonen and Marianna Leite

This stimulating book calls for the disruption of the forces that produce economies that manifestly fail to fulfil human rights and the reassembly of economies that will fulfil these rights, drawing on human rights norms and institutions, and a wide range of innovative ideas about economic alternatives. It offers new thinking for both practitioners and academics and will be indispensable reading for courses on human rights, political economy, and social and economic policy.