All Posts Tagged With: "liberalization"

The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad

Modern political discourse often treats democracy as if it were synonymous with liberty. In The Future of Freedom, Fareed Zakaria aims to refute that facile notion and reinvigorate the distinction between the two. As Zakaria puts it, pithily: “The execution of Socrates was democratic but not liberal.” Zakaria’s book is an extended brief against the [...]

2Jul2010 | Gene Healy | 2 comments | Continued

Scandinavian Irony: Socialism Meets Liberalization

Scandinavia is in the midst of an economic transformation. Thanks to tax reform, openness to investment/trade, sound property rights, little corruption, and continuing efforts to privatize, economies there have made great strides toward liberalization. Denmark, Finland, Iceland, and Sweden have been rated “free” economies by the Heritage Foundation’s 2006 Index of Economic Freedom (online at [...]

1Sep2006 | Sara F. Cooper | 22 comments | Continued
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