plays on the world stage. The main thesis of our work is that, despite the triumphant rhetoric praising the merits of …

economic freedom. The analysis relates to two kinds of economic liberties taken from the concept of freedom formulated by … Isaiah Berlin. While the first kind of freedom (negative freedom) depends on the external system (e.g. the constraints on the … prevent the free exercise of business (positive freedom): specifically, the social network, in which the company is embedded …

We study the impact of welfare payments in Ecuador on the probability that women and men work, and on whether they are … sources of data spanning more than 10 years. We find no evidence that welfare discouraged work. However, among women, welfare …