Resumen de Market Economy and Human Rights About the Civilizing Order of Things

Peter Ullrich

• The relationship between market economy and human rights has lately become subject of controversial debates concerning international agreements on free trade and the protection of investment as well as in the context of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. Yet, comprehensive considerations of that multifaceted relationship between the two domains are rarely made, be it due to the academic difficulties with inter- or transdisciplinary research or to the thorny public issue of an appropriate political order in general. This paper makes an attempt to explore some conceptual foundations of the addressed relationship by proposing five basic theses.