Abstract
Universal Human Rights, Articles 23 and 25 are especially relevant to the matters of living wages and incomes and the corresponding fair prices. These articles are at the base of the SDGs, the Sustainable Development Goals, adopted in 2015 by the United Nations.
The concepts of Living Wage and Living Income that are used in this book are based on these two UN articles, as is the ‘Living Income/Fair Price’ methodology explained in this book.
In order to put these concepts into practice, a paradigm change from the use of prices decided by the market with all its imperfections to an approach founded on ethics is needed. ‘Ethical’ here implies that any worker receives a decent income for full-time, sustainable work.
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Bronkhorst, R. (2020). Ethics: Human Rights and Basic Needs. In: The Economics of Human Rights. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-59166-3_2
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