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To Whom It May Concern: International Human Rights Law And Global Public Goods, Daniel Augenstein
To Whom It May Concern: International Human Rights Law And Global Public Goods, Daniel Augenstein
Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies
Public goods and human rights are sometimes treated as intimately related, if not interchangeable, strategies to address matters of common global concern. The aim of the present contribution is to disentangle the two notions to shed some critical light on their respective potential to attend to contemporary problems of globalization. I distinguish the standard economic approach to public goods as a supposedly value-neutral technique to coordinate economic activity between states and markets from a political conception of human rights law that empowers individuals to partake in the definition of the public good. On this basis, I contend that framing global …