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Rugged Individualism and Collective (In)action During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Bazzi, Samuel - 2020

Rugged individualism--the combination of individualism and anti-statism--is a prominent feature of American culture with deep roots in the country's history of frontier settlement. Today, rugged individualism is more prevalent in counties with greater total frontier experience (TFE) during the...

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Manumission in Nineteenth Century Virginia

Bodenhorn, Howard - 2010

A long-standing debate concerns the rationality of slave owners and this paper addresses that debate within the context of manumission. Using a new sample of 19th-century Virginia manumissions, I show that manumission was associated with the productive characteristics of slaves. More productive...

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Lost Decades : Lessons from Post-Independence Latin America for Today's Africa

Bates, Robert H. - 2006

Africa and Latin America secured their independence from European colonial rule a century and half apart: most of Latin America after 1820 and most of Africa after 1960. Despite the distance in time and space, they share important similarities. In each case independence was followed by political...

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Poverty, Political Freedom, and the Roots of Terrorism

Abadie, Alberto - 2004

-specific characteristics such as the level of political freedom are taken into account. Political freedom is shown to explain terrorism, but it … does so in a non-monotonic way: countries in some intermediate range of political freedom are shown to be more prone to … terrorism than countries with high levels of political freedom or countries with highly authoritarian regimes. This result …

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The Guarantees of Freedom

Porta, Rafael La - 2002

Hayek (1960) distinguishes the institutions of English freedom, which guarantee the independence of judges from … political interference in the administration of justice, from those of American freedom, which allow judges to restrain law … reflect these institutions of English and American freedom, and ask whether these rules predict economic and political freedom …

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Voluntary Associations, Corporate Rights, and the State : Legal Constraints on the Development of American Civil Society, 1750-1900

Bloch, Ruth H. - 2015

The freedom of citizens to form voluntary associations has long been viewed as an essential ingredient of modern civil … society. Our chapter revises the standard Tocquevillian account of associational freedom in the early United States by …

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