Part I: Reflections and theoretical contributions.- Chapter 1: A conversation with Noam Chomsky about limits and challenges in human rights: Smith's vile maxim.- Chapter 2: An intentional approach to human rights in economy: interest societies vs value societies.- Chapter 3: Some reflection ideas from the ancient roots about the link between Creativity and Freedom for modern societies.- Chapter 4: The birth of the Human Rights debate (18th century).- Chapter 5: Formation and transformation of economic systems: the conquest of rights and its impact on women.- Chapter 6: Meso-Economics: The Proper Dimension of Institutional Emergence and Cultural Development. A conceptual frame.
- Chapter 7: In defense of Human Rights: searching for a viable kind of objectivity.- Chapter 8: The limits of neoliberal paradigm in order to implement peoples' right.- Chapter 9: Unleashing the Human Development through Prescriptive Analytics based on the principle of Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam.- Part II: On socio-economic practices and models for Human Rights and economic socialization.- Chapter 10: Criteria for Transforming the Economy. Human Dignity, Respect for Nature, Harmony with Life.- Chapter 11: Human Rights in Economic and Social Realms: Exploring the Synergies between the Capability Approach of Amartya Sen and the Perspective of Original Institutional Economics.- Chapter 12: Beyond the economic growth: from the sustainability's rhetoric to the Bioeconomics' effectiveness.
- Chapter 13: Making Space for Social Justice.- Chapter 14: The impact of neoliberalism on the right to education: limits and proposals.- Chapter 15: UN 2030 Agenda, ESG criteria and Human Rights: the way of the Civil Economy.- Chapter 16: A critical reflection on corporate social responsibility: between communitarian ethics and business purpose.- Chapter 17: The Institutional participation role in economics systems for Human Rights.- Chapter 18: The experience of Cooperative clubs and houses of the people in Italy as places for developing social human rights.- Chapter 19: Last 20: The other vision of the world.- Chapter 20: The impact of economic financialization on Human Rights: some concepts and new socio-economic practices in order to build a universal economic socialization.
- Chapter 21: Sustainability Reports and Latin America: The Challenges of Social and Environmental Balances in Development Process for Human Rights.- Chapter 22: Conclusions.