The ‘Four Economic Freedoms’ and Life Quality: General Tendencies and Some Hard Lessons for EU-27-Europe

22 Pages Posted: 8 Sep 2011

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Arno Tausch

University of the Free State, Department of Political Studies and Governance; University of Innsbruck - Department of Political Science

Date Written: September 8, 2011

Abstract

For many years, EU-27-Europe’s political-economic strategy was characterized by an intensive opening to the forces of globalization and the realization of the ‘four freedoms’ of goods, capital, labor and services on the EU-27-European ‘internal market’. The present article is a 175 nation, 26 predictor variables study about the determinants of 12 sub-processes of life expectancy, infant mortality and other social cohesion variables in this context. Our detailed studies confirm a globalization critical paradigm and let us expect negative consequences for the overall EU-27-European health situation as a consequence of the current global economic crisis.

Keywords: international economic order, economic integration, general, equity, justice, inequality, other normative criteria and measurement, labor, demography, education, income, and wealth (general, international, or comparative)

JEL Classification: F02, D63, N30

Suggested Citation

Tausch, Arno, The ‘Four Economic Freedoms’ and Life Quality: General Tendencies and Some Hard Lessons for EU-27-Europe (September 8, 2011). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1924133 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1924133

Arno Tausch (Contact Author)

University of the Free State, Department of Political Studies and Governance ( email )

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University of Innsbruck - Department of Political Science ( email )

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Innsbruck, Tirol 6020
Austria

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