... identifying and clarifying what the obligations to work towards the full realisation of the [International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights] rights entail vis-à-vis public finance is an urgent task that deserves close attention from scholars as well as practitioners. Given the fundamental importance of social and economic rights and the political rhetoric of 'permanent austerity' in many countries the collection is timely, and it provides an important contribution to the on-going debates.

Jaakko Kuosmanen, Oxford Human Rights Hub

The volume offers not only good quality contributions, but also a short biography of the authors, an explanation of the abbreviations, an introduction, and, at the end of the volume, a useful index...All the authors of this volume show, with both theoretical foundations and practical evidence, how neoliberal policies are insufficient to fight a severe financial crisis. Different paradigms...are proposed. Every contribution is well supported with references to international policies and concrete results, making the proposed alternative approaches desirable.

Floriana Ferro, Nordicum-Mediterraneum: Icelandic e-Journal of Nordic and Mediterranean Studies

The volume offers not only good quality contributions, but also a short biography of the authors, an explanation of the abbreviations, an introduction, and, at the end of the volume, a useful index...All the authors of this volume show, with both theoretical foundations and practical evidence, how neoliberal policies are insufficient to fight a severe financial crisis. Different paradigms...are proposed. Every contribution is well supported with references to international policies and concrete results, making the proposed alternative approaches desirable.

Floriana Ferro, Nordicum-Mediterraneum – Icelandic e-journal of Nordic and Mediterraneum Studies, Volume 9, Number. 1

...a timely book contributing to the scholarly literature on our understanding of how public finance policies and institutions affect human rights...The discussion is well integrated and cohesive...a sophisticated critique...[It] provides an important contribution to the intensifying debates about the impact of financial belt-tightening on many cherished human rights.

Benjamin Richardson, International and Comparative Law Quarterly