Trends in the Index of Economic Freedom

Transcript

00:01 |

Initial credits
00:20 |

Introduction
00:49 |

Purpose of the Index of Economic Freedom
01:15 |

The ten factors used to measure economic freedom
03:50 |

The importance of economic freedom
- Economic freedom and per capita income
- Economic freedom: Personal achievement
- The bottom 20 countries in the 2006 Index
- The Top 20 Countries in the 2006 Index
- Distribution of economic freedom
- Economic growth: World average score
14:22 |

Global trends in economic freedom
- Eastern and Central Europe
  - Georgia: Economic reforms
    - Commerce liberalization
    - Adoption of Flat Taxes
  - The Flat Tax revolution
- Consequences of the tax revolution in Western Europe
- Eastern European Flat Tax rates
- Top corporate tax rates and economic growth
- Consequences of the Irish economic reforms
- Western Europe: Absence of the Flat Tax
31:22 |

Economic growth across europe
- Low growth rate countries
- Moderate growth rate countries
- High growth rate countries: Eastern countries
- Re-emergence of the Hapsburg Empire?
37:26 |

Economic history of the 20th century: Centralization
- Consequences of the French labor reforms: Riots
- The tax rate history of the United States
- Conclusion
44:35 |

Questions
- What are the economic freedom scores of China and India? How is the fiscal policy of China and India?
- What about countries that appear to be doing very well economically even though they have lower scores for economic freedom?
- How are populist Latin American governments going to influence economic freedom? Do you foresee important tax reforms in this region?
- Why do former Communist countries have the highest growth rates?
- Why do informal markets exist? How do they affect economic freedom?
- How fast should a country open its economy? How do you realize an economic reform?
- Do you have economic freedom information about Brunei? What factors limit your ability to gather data?
01:03:20 |

Final credits

Trends in the Index of Economic Freedom

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