ABSTRACT
Besides the fact that economics and human rights share a common object, ourselves, they are also intimately connected in other ways. On the one hand, one must admit that asserting human rights demands economic means, and on the other hand efficacy and efficiency of the agent’s economic decisions presupposes a significant degree of liberty. There is, therefore, an economic dimension to human rights as much as a human rights dimension to economics. Nevertheless one cannot avoid noticing that, unlike many other phenomena in society which are not supposed to belong to the so-called economic realm, as for example human nature, human rights have not been explicitly incorporated into economics discourse, in other words the language of human rights has not been translated into that of economics.
