Difference between revisions of "Portal:Economic Freedom"

Many people see political freedom and economic freedom as unrelated - believing that individual freedom is a political problem and material welfare an economic problem. And that therefore, being unconnected, any economic arrangement can be coupled with any political arrangement.
On the other hand, many (CW sponsors among them) see freedom of economic transaction and arrangement as part of, and fundamental to individual freedom. Further, that economic freedom is essential to political freedom - that political freedom cannot exist in the absence of economic freedom. At least we cannot point to an example in history of political freedom in the absence of economic freedom.

There is also an interesting contrast in the degree of proportional representation that can be achieved by free economic arrangements vs. the degree that can be achieved by even the most free political activity.

When one speaks of freedom, there is only one acceptable means to an end - free discussion and voluntary cooperation.

There are a number of other topics that belong to this category:

• Government fiscal policy
• Income distribution

are two among a number of others that bear discussion.

A particularly interesting topic will be poverty and how to deal with it. We have created a subcategory -Wealth and Poverty- to discuss these and have given it a "wealth and poverty" portal.

Articles for this category

This category is the place to insert articles that discuss economic freedom, the relationship between economic and political freedom, the role of government and government policy, and capitalism and socialism as contrasting approaches.

Articles about wealth and poverty should be assigned to the Wealth and Poverty subcategory to Economic Freedom.