Economic and social rights
Economic and social rights (ESCR): health, education, housing, work, social security as enforceable rights.
Economic, social, and cultural rights (ESCR) are the 'second generation' of human rights. Inscribed in the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (1966), they require positive state provision: health, education, housing, decent work, social security. Tensions with classical-liberal conception limiting rights to negative liberties. Argentina, South Africa, Colombia have courts that make them judicially enforceable.
Articles on economic and social rights (2)
- What's a rabbit?A rabbit crosses the field and seems to leave no doubt, until Quine asks what we really saw and philosophy makes the animal a problem. Among words, classifications and essences, this essay examines the moment in which a useful category stops describing concrete organisms and begins to populate the world with an additional entity called bunny.
- The Peronist Lion — Milei, Political Language, and the Illiberal Facade of PeronismA structural analysis of Javier Milei’s discourse reveals a hybrid regime: economically liberal, discursively Kirchnerist, and politically Peronist.
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