Authors: Trần Quang, Tuyến; Co-Author: 2009 (During the past decades, Vietnam has been transiting to an oriented socialist market economy with its core content aiming at economic freedom expansion. This process has been profoundly influencing almost socio-economic fileds in this country. The following article concentrates on criteria related to economic freedom and asserts that economic freedom is the main criterion to evaluate the development of the market economy. Although EC (European Committee) and The United State of America have so far given some criteria to assess the market economy, these standards are generally qualitative and difficult to measure. Therefore, started from the nature of the market economy is business, exchange, labor freedom, or concisely saying, is economic freedom and in short, it is “economic freedom”. The author analyzed the transitional process of Vietnam economy, which had been seen as the expanding of economic freedom level in the last two decades. The article pointed out the positive effects of economic freedom on economic prosperity, jobs, and monetary stabilizing in a many nations and analyzed the economic freedom expansion and economic transition in Vietnam.)
