Fred McMahon, Resident Fellow, Dr. Michael A. Walker Research Chair
in Economic Freedom, Fraser Institute
Broad equity markets within countries that have experienced an increase
in economic freedom have outperformed those with decreasing economic freedom both over time and during down markets.2
In particular, our preferred model finds that a ten percentage point increase in private share of schooling enrollment within a nation, over time, is associated with a 7.4 % of a standard deviation increase in the Political Rights Index and an 8 % of a standard deviation increase
in the Economic Freedom of the World Index.
«I am the candidate who, by applying true conservative Republican principles, will raise us from dead last
in economic freedom to the levels that ensure prosperity in the New York State for future generations to come,» Di Carlo concluded.
«The rise
in economic freedom in China in recent years has been hugely beneficial to China and to the world,» Mr Cameron said.
Not exact matches
Being a conservative, I've always felt, was believing
in limited government,
economic freedom and individual responsibility.
FLAKE: Being a conservative is not just believing
in limited government and
economic freedom.
While Cuba's middle class is reportedly growing with increased entrepreneurship and
economic freedom, citizens are nowhere near China
in terms of personal spending power.
Today, that deal no longer looks sustainable, so a new, unspoken one now lies on the table:
In exchange for a (further) loss of
freedoms and (now)
economic hardship, the Russian people will swell with national pride at a Russia — once mocked and belittled by the West — now retaking its rightful place at the center of global power politics.
When he began to consolidate his power
in the early 2000s, Putin's deal with the Russian people was simple: They would receive
economic stability — and, critically, much higher standards of living —
in exchange for a loss of
freedoms.
make this uprising more focused on
economic grievances than issues like
freedom of speech and women's» rights, which dominated the demands of protesters
in the past, according to the New York Times.
There is the
freedom to go deep
in the culture, and tell the story from the cultural participant perspective, which allows for a high level of
freedom and awareness around unique cultural and
economic issues.
Arizona and Indiana overturned so - called religious
freedom legislation
in 2014 and 2015, respectively, after businesses threatened boycotts and other
economic sanctions.
In this case mini flash crashes could be added to the already diverse set of factors linked to market crashes such as
economic freedom [26], transparency [27], and differences of opinion amongst investors [28].
Alex reminded me over lunch that the difference between Democrats and Republicans,
in his view, is that Democrats are for personal
freedom and some
economic restrictions, while Republicans are for
economic freedom and some personal restrictions.
There is a hope and a necessity to create opportunities to lift citizens
in society to a point of
economic freedom and healthy living.
Nothing about democracy
in his statements, it's all about
economic freedom pereptrated by the likes of Hayek, Flannigan, Harper and those crazies pushing their propaganda at the Fraser Institute.
Five post Lougheed premiers from the previous government ushered
in the concept of «
economic freedom» as espoused by the Fraser Insititute and how well did that work?
Harperism author Donald Gutstein chronicles the rise of corporate friendly «
economic freedom»
in his recently released book, Harperism: How Stephen Harper and His Think Tanks Colleaugues have Transformed Canada.
The answer is that it fulfills their goal of offering
economic choices and
freedom to people throughout the world, especially
in regions that often lack stable financial structures.
We have the illusion we can control our fate through individual
economic opportunity, but we are
in fact controlled by the very institutions that allegedly made our «
freedom» possible.
He also favored Toryism against Whiggism
in politics and
in history, and urged the cause of
economic freedom as a precondition of political liberty.
And for that reason we stand for life, for religious liberty, for marriage, for
economic freedom, for low taxes, for markets
in health care, for school choice.
It seems that only
in a community that has some control over its own
economic life can there be
freedom to decide about the respective roles of human labor and fossil energy.
At the same time, as John Paul II wrote
in Centesimus Annus, human
freedom is more than simply
economic freedom.
In most cases, liberationist theologies have taken root in situations that call for freedom from existing government and economic structure
In most cases, liberationist theologies have taken root
in situations that call for freedom from existing government and economic structure
in situations that call for
freedom from existing government and
economic structures.
While the Muslims lost
in the
economic, political, and educational spheres, the Hindus made corresponding gains all around due to their realistic acceptance of the new order and their
freedom from a false sense of pride.
Economic freedom, even
in the middle classes, becomes rarer and narrower every year.
In such a background King Jr. propagated the doctrine of non-violent direct action to achieve the social,
economic and political institutionalization of
freedom for the Americans Blacks.
But I can give you
freedom to overcome any system of power
in which you find yourself, be it religious,
economic, social, or political.
Our remit: Understand issues pertaining to religious
freedom and violence
in India and take stock of the role of religion
in social and
economic development.
Holmes dissented when the Supreme Court overturned
economic regulations as violating substantive due process or
freedom of contract not because he favored the regulations, but because he thought that the forces which dominated the political branches should be allowed to govern
in their own way.
In addition to worrying about their own flocks, they also fear that the West, smitten with the BJP's growth - oriented economic agenda and preoccupied by the threat of Islamic extremism, ignores the constriction of religious freedom and human rights in India toda
In addition to worrying about their own flocks, they also fear that the West, smitten with the BJP's growth - oriented
economic agenda and preoccupied by the threat of Islamic extremism, ignores the constriction of religious
freedom and human rights
in India toda
in India today.
If we wake up from our dreams we'll see what the postmodern left already sees, which is that the explosive growth of
economic freedom in recent decades has created two very large social problems.
• Greater
economic freedom has brought greater
economic inequality, as it always has
in the modern era.
We live
in an era of unparalleled
economic freedom.
If American conservatism is unwilling to face the fact that
economic freedom creates social and therefore political problems» political problems that will require
in one way or another limiting
economic freedom» it will be irrelevant to our age.
• Greater
economic freedom accelerates the rate of creative destruction, again, as it always has
in the modern era.
American conservatism is
in disarray because it refuses to squarely acknowledge the obvious truth that the great good of
economic freedom also creates problems.
Democrats propose responding by
in some way limiting
economic freedom through regulations or harvesting its fruits (increased wealth) through taxation.
To repeat: a cursory look at the nations of the world makes it clear that the important differences
in social responsibility and
freedom are between the democratic types (of both capitalist and socialist
economic system) and the despotic types, not between capitalism and socialism as such.
So also a university
in a free society is devoted
in intellectual
freedom to the pursuit of the universal, liberating knowledge and wisdom that are objectives of the society; it is on the other hand a teaching institution where men are equipped to direct the affairs of the governmental, legal, cultural, educational and
economic institutions of the society.
p) The Pope rejects a capitalism «
in which
freedom in the
economic sector is not circumscribed within a strong juridicial framework
in its totality, and which sees it as a particular aspect of that
freedom, the core of which is ethical and religious.»
But if by «capitalism» is meant a system
in which
freedom in the
economic sector is not circumscribed within a strong juridical framework which places it at the service of
freedom in its totality, and which sees it as a particular aspect of that
freedom, the core of which is ethical and religious, then the reply is certainly negative.
In contrast both to classical market economics and to Marxism, modern economics within the tradition of liberal learning recognizes the two
freedoms that are proper to
economic inquiry.
The primary
freedom consists
in the fact that the
economic system is a human creation and not a natural phenomenon.
By a curious semantic reversal,
freedom in classical «liberal» economics meant the absence of deliberate human intervention
in economic processes.
Such economics had no place for
freedom either
in the formulation of
economic ideas — the liberal faith was a dogma as absolute as that of the most orthodox religion — or
in the control of
economic affairs.
Even
in our own country, proud of its long heritage as the cradle of liberty and the land of the free, the issue of
freedom, whether
in the field of civil rights or of
economic opportunity, is still the most fundamental problem of our time.
The secondary
freedom in the study of economics consists
in the deployment of a variety of models of man and society,
in order to gain a wider range of perspectives on the complex events of
economic life and to experiment
in imagination with new and possibly better ways of directing
economic planning.