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• Cover
• Half title page
• 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
• Re-imagining the economy for economic and social rights, and development
• Key elements of the Human Rights Economy
• What changes are needed?
• What comes next?
• Contributors
• 1 Introduction: what it means to “right the economy” and why we need to do it now
• Rights-Based Economies: disrupting neoliberalism
• Emergence of a Rights-Based Economy
• The way forward: why a Rights-Based Economy?
• Outline of the book
• Part I – Framing the Economy
• 2 Towards a Rights-Based Economy: post-growth economics and the future of welfare
• Introduction
• False universality
• The limits of growth
• The Earth’s boundaries
• Environmental destruction and poverty
• The unfulfilled promise of “green growth”
• From overconsumption to the norm of sufficiency
• The broken compass
• Globalization: maximizing efficiency gains through trade and investment
• Creating value by commodifying life
• The state–market duopoly and the capture of democracy
• Conclusion
• 3 The Center for Economic and Social Rights’ journey to advance a Rights-Based Economy
• Introduction
• CESR’s efforts to articulate and catalyse a Rights-Based Economy
• Origin of the work on the RBE
• CESR’s vision and work to advance an RBE
• Alternative models that appear to be gaining more traction
• Degrowth
• Global Public Investment (GPI)
• Eco-social contract
• Social and solidarity economy (SSE)
• Feminist care economy
• Overlaps and divergences between alternatives models and human rights
• Taking this work forward
• 4 Business and human rights: from “tokenism” to “centring” rights and rights-holders
• Introduction
• Embedded liberalism and polycentric governance in the neoliberal market economy
• The theory and practice of HRDD
• Feijão Dam disaster, Brazil
• Juukan Gorge destruction, Australia
• Reimagining the corporate responsibility
• Centring rights-holders in HRDD processes
• Moving beyond “do no harm”
• Conclusion
• 5 A human rights economy approach as the basis for a global fiscal architecture
• Introduction
• International commitments to tackle tax-related illicit financial flows
• International tax reform and human rights
• International tax governance
• Beneficial ownership registry
• Regulation of enablers
• International tax treaties in a human rights context
• Conclusion and recommendations
• 6 Macroeconomic policy and development agenda for a Rights-Based Economy
• Introduction
• Macroeconomic policy for an RBE
• Monetary policy, exchange rate and inflation policy in an RBE
• Fiscal policy for an RBE
• Economic development for an RBE
• Mission-oriented RBE
• Chapter 7
• Introduction
• Governing regimes for sovereign financing
• Sovereign financing, financial complicity and human rights
• Official financiers and complicity for human rights violations
• Complicity of official financiers
• International law (states)
• International law (international organizations)
• Accountability mechanisms
• Internal frameworks of accountability
• External frameworks of accountability
• Conclusion
• Part II – Transforming the Economy
• 8 Illicit financial flows, tax havens and the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights
• Introduction
• African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights
• Peoples’ rights in the African Charter: a tool to combat illicit financial flows
• Article 21: the right to dispose of wealth and natural resources in the exclusive interests of the people
• Article 29(6): duty to pay tax
• The African Commission’s response to illicit financial flows
• The African Commission: strategic interventions to address illicit financial flows?
• Missed opportunities for norm elaboration on illicit financial flows as a human rights violation
• Concluding observations and recommendations on the periodic report submitted by Mauritius and the December 2017 press statement on the Paradise Papers
• Implementation of the fiscal reporting requirements in the 2018 “State reporting guidelines”
• Why did the African Commission miss these opportunities?
• How could a special mechanism on human rights and illicit financial flows at the African Commission turn the tide?
• Conclusion
• 9 Social and solidarity economy as an alternative economy for the protection of human rights
• Introduction
• Why and how does neoliberalism negatively affect human rights?
• Alternative economies and human rights
• How can the SSE contribute to protecting and realizing human rights?
• Conclusion
• 10 Judicial enforcement of socio-economic rights as a way to challenge neoliberalism: post-2008 austerity in Europe
• Introduction
• Two key tenets of neoliberalism
• The role of courts
• Socio-economic rights adjudication as a challenge to neoliberalism
• Post-2008 austerity cases as first steps
• Conclusion
• 11 Health and human rights: what are the lessons from the Covid-19 pandemic?
• Introduction
• From universal healthcare to universal health coverage: the link to neoliberal policy-making?
• Covid-19, public health and the fatal effects of austerity
• Conclusion
• 12 From recovery to transformation? Assessing Argentina’s Covid-19 economic response through a feminist lens
• Introduction
• Between challenges and opportunities: can the response to the pandemic have transformative power?
• The Mesa Interministerial de Políticas de Cuidado: shifting the paradigm?
• From mainstreaming to institutionalization: a necessary but not sufficient condition for transformation
• Conclusion
• 13 A feminist and decolonial Global Green New Deal: principles, paradigms and systemic transformations
• Introduction
• Systemic inequalities in the world economic order
• Principles, policy paradigms and decolonial futures
• A Rights-Based Economy as a foundation for a GGND
• Structural feminism
• Common but differentiated responsibilities
• Centring on public systems and services
• Austerity violates economic and social rights
• From debt colonialism to debt justice
• Tax justice is decolonial reclamation
• Decolonizing economics: how we think is at the root of our crises
• Decolonial futures
• Conclusion
• 14 Conclusion: “righting the economy” and building on plural and decolonial models to curtail the effects of negative corporate practice
• Emergence of a Rights-Based Economy
• Reassembling alternative economies
• Feminist economics and care economies
• Degrowth, post-growth and post-extractivism
• Social and Solidarity Economies
• Decommodification of the commons
• Buen vivir and ecological democracy
• The role of the state as enabler of human-rights-centred transformations
• Conclusion: way forward and recommendation for potential future work
• References
• Index