Economic Liberties and Human Rights

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.

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