The ‘Four Economic Freedoms’ and Life Quality: General Tendencies and Some Hard Lessons for EU-27-Europe
22 Pages Posted: 8 Sep 2011
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
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