Top Ten Most Capitalist Countires

[Chicom]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/0d/Index2006_EconFreedomMAP.jpg/800px-Index2006_EconFreedomMAP.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0...nFreedomMAP.jpg (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/0d/Index2006_EconFreedomMAP.jpg)

1. Hong Kong [1.28]
2 Singapore [1.56]
3 Ireland [1.58]
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9.United States [1.84]
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111. China [3.34]
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122. Russia [3.50]
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150. Cuba [4.10]
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152. Venezuela [4.16]
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157. Korea, North[5.00]

http://www.heritage.org/research/features/...x/countries.cfm (http://www.heritage.org/research/features/index/countries.cfm)


(from right winged source)

[C_Rasmussen]

How the HELL did the US get NINTH? I'm surprised that we're not higher up.

[Ferg]

The Irish are an oppressed people.

[ricardsju]

The high imports to Ireland partly
reflect one method multunational
companies use to maximise profits
made, through exporting goods into
the European Union via Ireland.

Royalties And License Fees Imports (http://www.sasi.group.shef.ac.uk/worldmapper/display.php?selected=100)
Royalties And License Fees Exports (http://www.sasi.group.shef.ac.uk/worldmapper/display.php?selected=99)

Yea for IP rights ! ......NOT

[PLPTX]

A) "Respressed" and "Unfree" are rather slanderous terms.

B) It is great news to find out that the Capitalist disease is slowly but surely being vaccinated by the people of Earth. Thank you for this map. :)

[Tekun]

The map's garbage
Their figures on based on right wing political beliefs rather than on social, state, and human conditions
In addition, they don't take into consideration globalisation, the IMF, or the debilitating debts and embargos that weaken the "mostly unfree" and "repressed" nations
Right wing BS!


Q.1. What is economic freedom?
Economic freedom is defined as the absence of government coercion or constraint on the production, distribution, or consumption of goods and services beyond the extent necessary for citizens to protect and maintain liberty itself. In other words, people are free to work, produce, consume, and invest in the ways they feel are most productive. (See Chapter 5, the Methodology.)

Q.2. How do you measure economic freedom?
To measure economic freedom and rate each country, the authors of the Index study 50 independent economic variables. These variables fall into 10 broad categories, or factors, of economic freedom:

Trade policy
Fiscal burden of government,
Government intervention in the economy,
Monetary policy,
Capital flows and foreign investment,
Banking and finance,
Wages and prices,
Property rights,
Regulation,
Informal market activity.

[che's long lost daughter]

How does the people who created that map define "freedom"?

[Rollo]

Isn't it ironic that the country kazakhstan ( kazakh means free man ) is not a free country? :P

[Si Pinto]

I love the way the UK is coloured blue when were supposed to have a socialist government. :lol: :lol: :lol:

Sort of sums Blair up really :rolleyes: .

[Karl Marx's Camel]

I love the way the UK is coloured blue when were supposed to have a socialist government.

Has Blair claimed to be leading a socialist government?


BTW, why does that map have some zoomed in shots of Venezuela/Cuba/rest of the Carribean. And then another which include Belarus and Lybia?



Notice how free Chile is (a country with very backward laws), Saudi Arabia (duh), South Africa and Peru (IIRC, the former having lots of AIDS, serious violent crime, and generally lots of death and poverty, while the second, I've got the impression that the second is not so good either)..

[Si Pinto]

Originally posted by [email protected] 11 2006, 11:04 AM
Has Blair claimed to be leading a socialist government?
You'd never guess would you? :D

He&#39;s about as Socialist as Idi Amin. <_<

The last Labour Party Conference that I attended, Blair said "We should be proud to be Socialists, we shouldn&#39;t be ashamed of using the word".

Wish I could shove it back down his throat.

[Rollo]

Click the first link and it has a zoomed shot of the caribbean. Says both venezuala and cuba are repressed. Belarus and Libya are also repressed according to the map.

[Karl Marx's Camel]

The last Labour Party Conference that I attended, Blair said "We should be proud to be Socialists, we shouldn&#39;t be ashamed of using the word".

Wish I could shove it back down his throat.

That&#39;s disgusting. I so want to punch Blair in the throat. <_<



You&#39;d never guess would you? :D

No that was quite a shock... What a bastard.

[Rollo]

BLAIR A SOCIALIST?&#33; First the Russian Nazis and know this. What next I say.

[TC]

Lol @ "economic freedom"...its the freedom to exploit people&#33;

Sudan is in the "not ranked" catagory, i guess they didn&#39;t want to rank it because it would be #1 for "economic freedom" since they are "economically free" to buy and sell people as slaves&#33;

Or maybe in Iraq where there is "economic freedom" to hire hitmen, legally ("security contractor" mercenaries are immune from both Iraqi and US military law by Paul Bremer&#39;s decree, they can kill for hire in death squads without legal consequences).

[Janus]

(from right winged source)
That was quite obvious. Look at Venezuela, many different oil, banking, and other corporations are in control of portions of the economy, yet it is somehow repressed.