What is the scope of economics as a science, what is economics for? Real freedom or what we call substantive democracy has never been an objective of economics. In this perspective freedom, or the lack of it, would not be a purpose of a particular economic system, but at best one of its side...

chapter Introduction -- chapter 1 Economics and human rights lost in translation -- chapter 2 Economics versus the right to work -- chapter 3 Economics versus the provision of goods and services as human rights -- chapter 4 Economics versus cultural freedom -- chapter 5 Economics versus...