Righting the Economy

Towards a People's Recovery from Economic and Environmental Crisis

Marianna Leite, Matti Kohonen, Marianna Leite, Matti Kohonen

• Publisher: Agenda Publishing
• Year: 2024
• Print ISBN: 9781788216876
• eBook ISBN: 9781788216890
• Topic: Economics
• Subtopic: International Business
• Index: Economics

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Righting the Economy
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Foreword by Tomás Pascual Ricke
• Human Rights Economy for People and the Planet: Framing the Contours of an Approach by Jyoti Sanghera
• Contributors
• 1 Introduction: what it means to “right the economy” and why we need to do it now
• Part I – Framing the Economy
• Introduction
• 3 The Center for Economic and Social Rights’ journey to advance a Rights-Based Economy
• 4 Business and human rights: from “tokenism” to “centring” rights and rights-holders
• 5 A human rights economy approach as the basis for a global fiscal architecture
• 6 Macroeconomic policy and development agenda for a Rights-Based Economy
• Chapter 7
• Part II – Transforming the Economy
• Introduction
• 9 Social and solidarity economy as an alternative economy for the protection of human rights
• 10 Judicial enforcement of socio-economic rights as a way to challenge neoliberalism: post-2008 austerity in Europe
• 11 Health and human rights: what are the lessons from the Covid-19 pandemic?
• 12 From recovery to transformation? Assessing Argentina’s Covid-19 economic response through a feminist lens
• 13 A feminist and decolonial Global Green New Deal: principles, paradigms and systemic transformations
• 14 Conclusion: “righting the economy” and building on plural and decolonial models to curtail the effects of negative corporate practice
• References
• Index