Economic Freedom, Government Policy and the Trade-Off Between Equity and Economic Growth

By G. Scully. 2002

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Subfields: Accounting, Economics and Econometrics

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Economic Freedom of the World: An Accounting of the Literature (2014, unknown): “Some studies (e.g, Berggren 1999; Gwartney and Lawson 2006; Scully 2002) have found a trade-off between growth and income equality.”
Urbanization and income inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa (2019, unknown): “Other scholars have argued that unanticipated inflation lowers income inequality because it redistributes income from the rich to the poor (e.g., Blinder & Esaki, 1978; Scully & Slottje, 1991; Scully, 2002).”
An Empirical Note on Economic Freedom and Income Inequality (2007, methodology): “To measure income inequality, Berggren (1999) and Scully (2002) used Gini coefficients drawn from the secondary database assembled by Deininger and Squire (1996).”
Income inequality and economic freedom in the U.S. states (2008, methodology): “Berggren (1999), for example, finds that higher levels of economic freedom are associated with greater income inequality, while Scully (2002) finds that higher levels of economic freedom are associated with lesser income inequality (although changes in freedom are found to work in the opposite…”
Do liberalization and globalization increase income inequality (2010, background): “Although participants in public debate on this topic generally have a clear opinion on the relationships, empirical evidence is surprisingly contradictory (cf. Berggren, 1999; Scully, 2002; Carter, 2007; Dreher and Gaston, 2008).”
The Benefits of Economic Freedom: A Survey (2003, methodology): “De Vanssay and Spindler (1994) use a version of the Scully-Slottje economic freedom index, which is included in a solovian growth model, and find a positive relationship between it and economic growth. It is shown that positive rights hamper growth and that negative rights enhance it.13 De Vanssay a”
Who Benefits from Economic Freedom? Unraveling the Effect of Economic Freedom on Subjective Well-Being (2013, unknown): “There is in no clear relationship between EF and income inequality (Ashby & Sobel, 2007), or even a positive relation between EF and income equality (Berggren, 1999; Scully, 2002).”