In Article 25 (1) of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the United Nations recognized in 1948 the basic human right to “security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond ... control.” This paper...

The Author examines the right to an adequate standard of living - as a subset of the right to life, dignity, and the pursuit of happiness - and assesses the extent of its realization in Africa. The paper assumes the normativity of socio-economic rights - quite apart from debates on their...

How to address human rights is a forever important issue of political economics. In expanding that view, it is important to know that whether the decision has a firm ground. We humans say that every decision should be addressed in the rational point view of human rights. And to support that,...

Preface -- 1 Introduction -- Part I: The Quality of Life in Two Different Good Societies: Denmark and Switzerland -- 2 Two Wealthy Economies and Their Development -- 3 Are the Standards of Living Similar or Dissimilar?- 4 Happiness in Denmark and Switzerland.- Part II: Two Models of Good...

In this article, we lay out the basic case for wellbeing as the goal of government. We briefly review the history of this idea, which goes back to the ancient Greeks and was the acknowledged ideal of the Enlightenment. We then discuss possible measures on which a wellbeing orientation could be...