Contents

pp v-vi

Acknowledgements

pp vii-viii

Foreword

pp ix-xii

Human Rights Economy for People and the Planet: Framing the Contours of an Approach

pp xiii-xx

Contributors

pp xxi-xxii

1 - Introduction: what it means to “right the economy” and why we need to do it now

pp 1-12

Part I - Framing the Economy

pp 13-14

2 - Towards a Rights-Based Economy: post-growth economics and the future of welfare

pp 15-28

3 - The Center for Economic and Social Rights’ journey to advance a Rights-Based Economy

pp 29-42

4 - Business and human rights: from “tokenism” to “centring” rights and rights-holders

pp 43-56

5 - A human rights economy approach as the basis for a global fiscal architecture

pp 57-72

6 - Macroeconomic policy and development agenda for a Rights-Based Economy

pp 73-84

7 - Financial complicity and human rights: exploring the legal and policy landscape of responsibility for sovereign debt

pp 85-100

Part II - Transforming the Economy

pp 101-102

8 - Illicit financial flows, tax havens and the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights

pp 103-118

9 - Social and solidarity economy as an alternative economy for the protection of human rights

pp 119-130

10 - Judicial enforcement of socio-economic rights as a way to challenge neoliberalism: post-2008 austerity in Europe

pp 131-144

11 - Health and human rights: what are the lessons from the Covid-19 pandemic?

pp 145-156

12 - From recovery to transformation? Assessing Argentina’s Covid-19 economic response through a feminist lens

pp 157-170

13 - A feminist and decolonial Global Green New Deal: principles, paradigms and systemic transformations

pp 171-184

14 - Conclusion: “righting the economy” and building on plural and decolonial models to curtail the effects of negative corporate practice

pp 185-194

References

pp 195-228

Index

pp 229-232