The ‘four economic freedoms’ and life quality. General tendencies and some hard lessons for EU-27-Europe.

Tausch, Arno (2011): The ‘four economic freedoms’ and life quality. General tendencies and some hard lessons for EU-27-Europe.

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, labour 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.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: Life expectancy, infant mortality, international relations and international political economy, international migration
• Subjects: F - International Economics > F2 - International Factor Movements and International Business > F22 - International Migration; F - International Economics > F5 - International Relations, National Security, and International Political Economy; I - Health, Education, and Welfare > I1 - Health > I18 - Government Policy ; Regulation ; Public Health; P - Economic Systems > P1 - Capitalist Systems > P16 - Political Economy

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