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This group of University of Connecticut faculty
meets bi-monthly to discuss current scholarship in the area of economic
rights, and related
theoretical issues across a range of disciplines. Below
is a list of resources reviewed by the group since its inception in 2004.
Oksan Bayulgen, Assistant Professor, Political
Science
Mark
Boyer, Professor, Political Science
Audrey Chapman, Professor,
Community Medicine & Healthcare
Shareen Hertel, Assistant Professor, Political Science
Richard Hiskes, Professor, Political Science
Mwangi
S. Kimenyi, Associate Professor, Economics
Kathryn Libal,
Assistant Professor in Residence, Women’s Studies
Valerie
Love, Curator for Human Rights, Dodd Research Center
Alanson Minkler, Associate Professor, Economics
Bandana
Purkayastha, Associate Professor of Sociology
and Asian-American Studies
Susan Randolph,
Associate Professor, Economics
Lyle Scruggs, Associate Professor, Political Science
Christian
Zimmermann, Associate Professor, Economics
Affiliates are academics within the larger
scholarly community who actively participate in our program.
Radhika
Balakrishnan,
Professor, International Studies and Economics, Marymount Manhattan
College
Sakiko Fukuda-Parr,
Professor, International Affairs, The New Schoo
Michael Goodhart,
Associate Professor, Political Science, University of Pittsburgh
Mark
Gibney, Professor, Law, Univ. of North Carolina-Ashville
Philip
Harvey, Professor, Law and Economics, Rutgers School of Law - Camden
Shawna
Sweeney, Assistant Professor, Policy Studies, University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth
The
purpose of the series is to foster and promote research in the re-emerging
area of economic rights. The series aims to be the clearinghouse
for research in economic rights. It will be continuously updated. Typically,
working papers in the series represent work in progress on any topic
of economic rights and from any field. Published articles may also
be included as a convenient way for scholars to access up-to-date
research
in their area of interest. In all cases the copyrights for the papers
included in the series remain with the author or, if previously published,
with the author and/or publisher. Those interested in submitting
papers to the series should contact Lanse Minkler, Director of Socio-Economic
Rights at the Human Rights Institute, at Alanson.Minkler@uconn.edu.
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All Sessions are from 12-1:30
February 8 Rm. 162
Oksan
Bayulgen
Topic: Non-State Approaches to Institutionalizing Economic Rights
February 29 Rm. 162
Topic:
Hurricane Katrina and Human Rights
12-12:30 Readings and Discussion
1. Summary of The Gulf Coast Civic Works
Act of 2007 (HR 4048). For full text of legislation see the following
link:
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?c110:1:./temp/
~c110uFdCRr
2.
Where Did the Katrina Money Go? By Jeffrey Buchanan and Chris Kromm,
Institute for Southern Studies, September 5, 2007.
3. NESRI
12:30-? Film: When the Levees Broke (By Spike Lee)
March 28 Admin.
Conference Rm.
Shareen Hertel
Topic: The Effect of Constitutionalizing
Economic Rights on Social Mobilization
April 11 Rm. 162
Radhika
Balakrishnan
Topic: Assessing Macroeconomic Policies and Human
Rights
April 12
2nd Annual ERG Workshop on the
Indivisibility and Interdependence of Human Rights
April 25 Admin.
Conf. Rm
Mark Boyer
Topic: Public Goods Theory Applied to Environmental Rights
All Sessions are from 12-1:30 at the listed Dodd Center Room
September
14 Rm. 162
Lanse Minkler Topic: Economic Rights and the Policymaker’s
Decision Problem
October 5 Admin Conference
Rm
Susan Randolph Topic: Measuring
Household Level Food Security in Rural Senegal
October 26 Rm.
162
Sakiko Fukuda-Parr
Topic: Human Development
and Human Rights: addressing the limitations of Human Rights Based
Development
November 16 Rm.
162
Tarp, Finn, 2006. “Aid and Development,” Swedish
Economic Policy Review 13: 9-61.
Clemens, Michael A., 2007. “Smart
Samaritans - Is There a Third Way in the Development Debate?(The Bottom
Billion: Why the Poorest Countries
Are Failing and What Can Be Done About It)(Book review of Paul Collier),” Foreign
Affairs 86(5): 132-140.
December 7 Admin
Conference Rm
Stiglitz, J. and A. Charlton,
2005. Fair Trade for All: How Trade Can Promote Development, Oxford:
Oxford University Press, Chapters 2,3, 5.
All meetings are on Fridays from 1:30-3pm
Febuary 2 Conference Room
162, Dodd Research Center
Oksan Bayulgen
Topic: On Microfinance Research
Febuary
23 Administrative Conference Room, Dodd Research Center
Kathy Libal
Topic: Economic Rights in 'General Comments'
of UN
Human Rights Treaty-Monitoring Bodies
March 16 Administrative
Conference Room, Dodd Research Center
Audrey Chapman
Topic: TBA
April 6 Administrative
Conference Room, Dodd Research Center
Lanse Minkler
Topic: The Cost of Economic Rights
April 27 Administrative
Conference Room, Dodd Research Center
Shareen Hertel, Lyle Scruggs, and Patrick Heidkamp
Topic: On Ethical Consumption
September 15 Conference Rm.
162, Dodd
Organizational Issues
(Optional) Hertel, S. and Minkler, L., “Economic
Rights: The Terrain.”
September 29 Administrative
Rm., Dodd
Alston, P., 2005. Ships Passing in the Night: The Current
State of the Human Rights and Development Debate Seen Through the Lens
of the Millennium Development Goals,” HRQ 27, 755-829.
Harvard School of Public Health, FXB Center Working Paper
series, No. 12: Arjun Sengupta, "Development Cooperation and the
Right to
Development" (2003):
October 13 Conference Rm.
162, Dodd
Lyle Scruggs, Political Science. Topic: On Social Insurance
November 10 Administrative
Rm., Dodd
Bandana Purkayastha, Sociology. Topic: TBA
December 1 Administrative
Rm., Dodd
Shawna Sweeney, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth.
Topic: TBA
January 30
Philip Harvey,
Rutgers Law School (topic: on the right to employment)
Febuary
20
Stephen Pallage, University of Montreal, Economics (topic:
on child labor)
March 13
Michael Goodhart,
University of Pittsburgh, Political Science (topic: on the right to an
adequate standard of living)
April 3
Susan Radolph, Uconn,
Economics (topic: on measuring economic rights)
April
15
Kathryn Libal, Uconn, Anthropology (topic: Debating Economic
Rights in the First Wave International Feminist Movement, 1920s-1930s)
September 20
(1) Hertel, S., Forthcoming. "Why Bother? Advancing Work on Measuring Economic
Rights," in Landman and Dahlerus (Eds).
(2) Green, M., 2001. "What We Talk About When We Talk About Indicators:
Current Approaches to Human Rights Measurement," Human Rights Quarterly
23, 1062-1097.
October 4
(1) Nickel, J., 2005. "Poverty and Rights," The Philosophical Quarterly
55, 385-402.
(2) Beetham, David, 1995. _What Future for Economic and Social Rights,_ Political
Studies 43, 41-60.
October 18
(1) Kimenyi, S., 2005. " Economic Rights, Human Development Effort and Institutions," Paper
to be presented at the Economic Rights Conference.
(2) Blume, L. and S. Voigt, 2004. _The Economic Effects of Human Rights,_ University
of Kassel Working Paper 66/04.
January 24
Sen, Amartya, 2004. “Elements of a Theory
of Human Rights,” Philosophy and Public Affairs, 32, 315-356.
February 7
From: Sunstein, Cass, 2004. The Second Bill of
Rights. (Introduction and chapters 10-12).
February 28
Milner, Wesley T., Steven C. Poe and David Leblang,
1999. “Security Rights, Subsistence Rights, and Liberties: A Theoretical
Survey of the Empirical Landscape,” Human Rights Quarterly 21,
403-443.
March 14
Cingranelli, David L. and David L. Richards,
2004. “Measuring Government Respect for Economic Human Rights,” paper
prepared for the 2004 Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science
Association, Chicago, IL, 13 September 2004.
CHILD LABOR
March 28
Basu, Kaushik, and Zafiris Tzannatos, 2003. “The
Global Child Labor Problem: What Do We Know and What Can We Do?,” CAE
Working Paper #03-06, June 2003.
LIVING WAGE
April 11
“Beyond Questions of Principle: Exploring
the Implementation of Living Wages in Today’s Global Economy,” A
Report on the Fair Labor Association’s Living Wage Forum, October
20, 2003, Columbia University.
1. Marks,
Stephen, (2000-01). “The Human rights Framework
for Development: Five Approaches,” Working Paper No.6, Francois-Xavier
Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard School of Public
Health.
2. Copp, David, 1992. “The Right to an Adequate Standard
of Living: Justice, Autonomy, and Basic Needs,” in Ellen Frankel
Paul, Fred Miller, and Jeffrey Paul (Eds), Economic Rights, Cambridge:
Cambridge
University Press.
1. Sen, Amartya, 1999. Development as Freedom,
NY: Knopf. Chapters 3 and 4.
2. Sugden, Robert, 1993. “A Review
of Inequality Reexamined by Amartya Sen,” Journal of Economic Literature,
31, 1947-62.
1. Gewirth, Alan, 1996. The Community of Rights, Chicago: The University
of Chicago Press. Chapters 1 and 2.
1. Pogge, Thomas. “A Cosmopolitan Perspective on the
Global Economic Order,” in Harry Brighouse and Gillian Brock (Eds),
The Political Philosophy of Cosmopolitanism.
1. Sachs, Albie, 2004. “The Judicial Enforcement of
Socio-Economic Rights: The Grootboom Case,” paper presented at
a conference on Third Party Effects- What Happens When the State Promotes
Rights?, 12th
Annual Conference on “The Individidual Versus the Stat,” Central
European University, Budapest, June 18-19.
Economic Rights Group Workshop 2008, “Interdependence
and Indivisibility”
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Economic Rights Group Workshop 2007, “Instantiating Economic
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Economic Rights: Conceptual, Measurement,
And Policy Issues 2005
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Conference
This conference
resulted in the publication
of an edited volume by the same title, available from Cambridge University
Press.
 Hertel,
Shareen and Lanse Minkler, eds. Economic Rights: Conceptual, Measurement,
and Policy Issues. Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Scholars
and policymakers are increasingly attempting to link socio-economic
and classic civil and political rights in unprecedented and
innovative ways. The University of Connecticut will host a conference
on "Economic
Rights: Conceptual, Measurement, and Policy Issues" (October
27-29, 2005) to move
this new research and debate forward. The event is co-sponsored
by the University of Connecticut Human Rights Institute and
the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center, in celebration of the
Dodd Center’s
10th Anniversary Celebration.
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