Publications
The publications listed on this page are authored by the Svetilnik staff or individuals associated with Svetilnik. These publications reflect the views of the authors, and not necessarily the views of Svetilnik or organizations where they work.
Svetilnik Publications in English
ARTICLE: The Logic Behind the Coexistence of Welfare State and Free Market: The Scandinavian Dream
ARTICLE: Svetilnik Held Friedman Day 2015
ARTICLE: The (Neo)Liberalism Hunt
ARTICLE: Liberty Seminars Slovenia 2014
ARTICLE: For Successful Privatisation, Learn from Privatisation Failure
ARTICLE: Waiting for Godot
ARTICLE: The Fight Against Irrationality
ARTICLE: Learning, Debating, Canoeing at the Liberty Seminars in Slovenia
ARTICLE: Tax Freedom Day
DICTIONARY: Dictionary of Economic Terminology
Svetilnik collaborated with the Austrian Economics Center to translate the English-Slovenian and Slovenian-English dictionary of economic terminology (1050 terms). The dictionary is available in eight languages (English, German, Spanish, Slovenian, Croatian, Serbian, Romanian and Bulgarian) as an application (PRO version) for iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, iOS, Android and Blackberry.
BOOK: 4Liberty.eu Review No.03
We present you the 3rd issue of 4liberty.eu Review devoted to the shadow economy in CEE. Since Daniel Defoe and his 1726 The Political History of the Devil, we were made to believe that there are two things in our world that we may easily deem certain: death and taxes. Nevertheless, humanity always has its way of adjusting the status quo to its own will and thus, although the existence of taxes seems indispensable to the functioning of modern states, resourceful individuals get by by correcting the great tax expectations themselves. And so they move into the shadows.
REPORT: Economic Freedom of the World: 2015 Annual Report
Slovenia ranks 111 out of 157 nations and territories included in the Economic Freedom of the World: 2015 Annual Report, which was released on September 14 by Visio Institute. The Slovene version my be found here.
The Human Freedom Index presents the state of human freedom in the world based on a broad measure that encompasses personal, civil, and economic freedom. Human freedom is a social concept that recognizes the dignity of individuals and is defined here as negative liberty or the absence of coercive constraint. Because freedom is inherently valuable and plays a role in human progress, it is worth measuring carefully. The Human Freedom Index is a resource that can help to more objectively observe relationships between freedom and other social and economic phenomena, as well as the ways in which the various dimensions of freedom interact with one another.
We have the pleasure to present you the second print issue of 4Liberty.eu Review – a collection of articles written by experts and human rights activists from member states of the European Union and the Eastern Partnership. We believe that such an overview is the best possible way to understand how the past, the present and the future of those two projects was, is and will be shaping up.
BOOK: 4Liberty.eu Review No.01
We have the pleasure to present you the first print issue of 4liberty.eu Review – a collection of articles written by experts and human rights activists from member states of the European Union and the Eastern Partnership. We believe that such an overview is the best possible way to understand how the past, the present and the future of those two projects was, is and will be shaping up.
REPORT: Economic Freedom of the World: 2014 Annual Report Slovenia ranks 105 out of 152 nations and territories included in the Economic Freedom of the World: 2014 Annual Report, which was released on October 7 by Svetilnik. In this year's report Slovenia dropped 8 places since last years and 41 places since 2010. The main problems in Slovenia remain the size of government, rigid labour market, excessive regulation, hostility toward foreign direct investment, and weak rule of the law.
BOOK: Peace, Love, & Liberty: War Is Not Inevitable
Atlas Network & Students for Liberty
War teaches people to hate. Hate our enemies. Hate our neighbors. Hate those who are different. Peace allows people to love. To change enemies into friends. To replace conflict with cooperation. To replace hatred with love and friendship. What fosters peace? The evidence is in: liberty. What undermines liberty? The evidence for that is in, too: war. The essays in this book offer evidence and arguments for peace. The writers advance peace not merely as a moral ideal or even a desirable goal, but as an eminently practical objective. <Read the rest of the book>
BOOK: After the Welfare State: Politicians Stole Your Future ... You Can Get It Back
The welfare states of today are directly responsible for the two great economic crises that are gripping the world: the global financial crisis and the debt crisis. -- Dr. Tom G. Palmer, editor of the book
This collection of essays by scholars from five nations was published by the Atlas Network, a nonprofit association of over 400 free-market think tanks, and Students for Liberty (SFL), a network of over 600 college clubs dedicated to limiting government and defending individual liberty. To download a PDF of the book or order a hardcopy click here. The Slovenes may also take out a copy of the book at one of 26 Slovenian libraries (the list of libraries is available here).
BOOK: Why Liberty: Your Life, Your Choices, Your FutureThe book offers, as an alternative to the politics of force, a philosophy of persuasion based on individual liberty and choice. It includes contributions from student leaders such as Alexander McCobin, co-founder of the Students for Liberty, and Olumayowa Okediran, founder of African Liberty Students Organization, as well as highly visible thought leaders including TV personality John Stossel. "We are seeing an explosion among college students committed to the ideas of liberty -- there's no other word to describe it," says Dr. Tom Palmer. "And today's students are not only interested in discussing these ideas, they want to do something about it. That's why this new book so strongly represents the voices of today's student leaders, some very impressive young people who have developed their own vision for freedom, one that transcends old political divides, and who know how to get organized and to do something constructive to make their vision happen."
Ian Vasquez of the Cato Institute and Tanja Stumberger Porcnik of Svetilnik coauthored the first global index measuring human freedom consistent with a classical liberal approach, which has been published as a chapter in Towards a Worldwide Index of Human Freedom, a book published by the Fraser Institute from Canada and the Liberales Institut from Germany. The Human Freedom Index is currently under revision by the coauthors. The revised version is expected to be published in Spring 2014
