This paper presents historical indices for the main dimensions of economic freedom and an aggregate index for nowadays … developed countries -(pre-1994) OECD, for short-. Economic liberty expanded over the last one-and-a-half centuries, reaching two … since the early 1980s has resulted in the highest levels of economic liberty of the last two centuries. Each main dimension …

This paper presents historical indices for the main dimensions of economic freedom and an aggregate index for nowadays … developed countries -(pre-1994) OECD, for short-. Economic liberty expanded over the last one-and-a-half centuries, reaching two … since the early 1980s has resulted in the highest levels of economic liberty of the last two centuries. Each main dimension …

This paper presents historical indices for the main dimensions of economic freedom and an aggregate index for nowadays … developed countries -(pre-1994) OECD, for short-. Economic liberty expanded over the last one-and-a-half centuries, reaching two … since the early 1980s has resulted in the highest levels of economic liberty of the last two centuries. Each main dimension …

thoroughly revised Historical Index of Economic Liberty (HIEL). Long-term gains in economic freedom reached two-thirds of its …This paper analyses economic freedom for a sample of 21 OECD countries over the past 170 years on the basis of a new … potential maximum. The expansion of economic freedom was abruptly interrupted by the world wars and resumed after 1950, to peak …