1st Edition
Economic Liberties and Human Rights
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
Biography
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.
