The Political Economy of Economic Freedom
Author | : Alan T. Peacock |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 341 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Free enterprise |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Alan T. Peacock |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 341 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Free enterprise |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Niclas Berggren |
Publisher | : Edward Elgar Publishing |
Total Pages | : 439 |
Release | : 2024-04-12 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1802206159 |
This seminal Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of contemporary research on economic freedom, using multidisciplinary methods to assess studies of the determinants and consequences of market-oriented institutions and policies. Niclas Berggren brings together world-leading experts in their respective fields to explore the notion of economic freedom in the history of economic thought, to present measures of economic freedom and to provide overviews of the latest empirical research.
Author | : Benjamin Powell |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 2018-10-03 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0429813201 |
Economic theory and a growing body of empirical research support the idea that economic freedom is an important ingredient to long-run economic prosperity. However, the determinants of economic freedom are much less understood than the benefits that freedom provides. Economic Freedom and Prosperity addresses this major gap in our knowledge. If private property and economic freedom are essential for achieving and maintaining a high standard of living, it is crucial to understand how improvements in these areas have been achieved and whether there are lessons that can be replicated in less free areas of the world today. In this edited collection, contributors investigate this research question through multiple methodologies. Beginning with three chapters that theoretically explore ways in which economic freedom might be better achieved, it then moves on to a series of empirical chapters that examine questions including the speed and permanence of reform, the deep long-run determinants of economic freedom, the relationship between voice and exit in impacting freedom, the role of crises in generating change, and immigration. Finally, the book considers the evolution of freedom in China, development economics, and international trade, and it concludes with a consideration of what is necessary to promote a humane liberalism consistent with economic freedom. Economic Freedom and Prosperity will be of great interest to all social scientists concerned with issues of institutional change. It will particularly appeal to those concerned with economic development and the determinants of an environment of economic freedom.
Author | : Sebastiano Bavetta |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 223 |
Release | : 2012-06-29 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 113951072X |
What is freedom? Can we measure it? Does it affect policy? This book develops an original measure of freedom called 'Autonomy Freedom', consistent with J. S. Mill's view of autonomy, and applies it to issues in policy and political design. The work pursues three aims. First, it extends classical liberalism beyond exclusive reliance on negative freedom so as to take autonomous behavior explicitly into account. Second, it grounds on firm conceptual foundations a new standard in the measurement of freedom that can be fruitfully coupled with existing gauges. Third, it shows empirically that individual preferences for redistribution and cross-country differences in welfare spending in Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries are driven by the degree of 'autonomy freedom' that individuals enjoy. By means of an interdisciplinary approach and a sophisticated econometric methodology, the book takes an explicit stand in defense of freedom and sets the basis for a liberalism based upon people's actions and institutions.
Author | : Kurt R. Leube |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |
Author | : David P. Levine |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 1995-03-31 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780521447911 |
Modern life places a special emphasis on private affairs. Social institutions, and especially our economies, have been organized to facilitate the pursuit of private interests. At the center of this private world is a system of private property which, more than anything, satisfies our wants. Political economy studies the properties of this private world: How does it work, and how well does it satisfy our wants? What are the limits of the world of private affairs? Wealth and Freedom provides an introduction to political economy for the student or other interested nonspecialist. The book explores such key issues as the place of our economy in the larger social system, the importance of market institutions for individual autonomy, private enterprise as a system of economic development, poverty and inequality in market economies, global inequality, and the limits of the market and the role of government. Wealth and Freedom is distinctive in employing a rights-based approach to understanding and evaluating economic institutions. The author emphasizes the distinction between needs and wants as the basis for establishing the limits of the market, and concludes the book with a discussion of the relation between private wants and public ends.
Author | : Jakob de Haan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 255 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Economic policy |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Jaw-Nian Huang |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 171 |
Release | : 2019-08-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0429939345 |
This book offers a political economy analysis of the development and degradation of freedom of the press in Taiwan since 1949, exploring how state-business elites and foreign hegemons interacted to shape the evolution of Taiwan’s media. It examines why freedoms increased alongside democratization in the 1990s but deteriorated after the second peaceful turnover of power in 2008 and why significant improvements accompanied Taiwan’s close economic connections with the US during the Cold War, only to become eroded as the country developed deeper economic ties with China in the 21st century. Presenting both a domestic and international perspective, this study of the controversial case of Taiwan ultimately argues in favor of three factors. First, state power is not the only threat to press freedom, as corporate organizations and market forces may also play a role in curtailing it. Second, cross-national economic connections do not always improve human and civil rights but may cause damage when they involve more powerful authoritarian countries. Third, just as norms diffuse from liberal contexts to repressive states, repressive norms are also likely to diffuse from powerful authoritarian countries to more liberal but politically and economically weaker ones. Providing a new viewpoint on China’s media control overseas, The Political Economy of Press Freedom will be useful for students and scholars of Chinese Studies and Taiwan Studies as well as comparative politics, international relations and Media Studies.
Author | : Friedrich List |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 422 |
Release | : 1904 |
Genre | : Economics |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Michael R. Strain |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 2016-09-15 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0844750034 |
Is economic liberty necessary for individuals to lead truly flourishing lives? Whether your immediate answer is yes or no, this question is deceptively simple. What do we mean by liberty? What constitutes the flourishing life? How are these related? How is economic liberty related to other goods that affect human flourishing? To answer these questions—and more—this volume brings to bear some of history’s greatest thinkers, interpreted by some of today’s leading scholars of their thought.