Research Article

Evaluation of the Relationships Between Components of Economic Freedom with Multidimensional Scaling Analysis

Volume: 10 Number: 2 June 30, 2021
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Evaluation of the Relationships Between Components of Economic Freedom with Multidimensional Scaling Analysis

Abstract

Economic freedom plays a significant role in the development of a country's economic, technical and social dimensions. In this context, it is of great importance for countries to increase their economic freedom performance. There are various indices that measure the economic freedom performance of countries in the international arena. One of these indexes is the Heritage Foundation Economic Freedom Index, which is frequently used in researchs. The components of this index have a positive complementary feature to each other. In addition, the activities of the countries to link these components with each other can cause the countries to increase their economic freedom performance. In this context, the purpose of the research is to determine the relational structure of the components through the values of the Heritage Foundation Economic Freedom Index components of the first 100 countries with the highest economic freedom performance for 2020. According to the analysis, it has been determined that the tax burden and goverment spending components are too far from other components. Therefore, it has been determined that the tax burden and goverment spending components do not contribute to the relational structure. On the other hand, it has been observed that the components of property rights, judicial effectiveness, financial freedom and goverment integrity are the components that contribute the most to the relational structure, since their average proximity to other components is higher. Accordingly, it has been concluded that countries should primarily engage in activities that will concern the other components of the tax burden and public expenditure components and provide a positive relationship with them in order to increase their overall economic freedom performance.

Keywords

Economic Freedom , Economic Freedom Performance , Heritage Foundation Economic Freedom Index , Multidimensional Scaling Analysis , Economic Development

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APA
Altıntaş, F. F. (2021). Ekonomik Özgürlük Bileşenleri Arasındaki İlişkilerin Çok Boyutlu Ölçekleme Analizi ile Değerlendirilmesi. İnsan Ve Toplum Bilimleri Araştırmaları Dergisi, 10(2), 1911-1940. https://doi.org/10.15869/itobiad.861640