an ecological understanding of the commons and human freedom, more generally, thereby reinterpreting classical thinkers …

more lenient and child labor thus more prevalent than in countries enjoying political freedom. We test this implication and …

Using a new set of micro evidence from an original survey of 28 transition countries, we show that democracy increases … reformist parties in the former socialist block lies in a deepening of democracy. …

We analyse the effect of IMF and World Bank policies on the composite index of economic freedom by Gwartney et al …, we find that the number of projects has a positive impact on overall economic freedom, while the effect of the amount of … World Bank credits is negative. These effects are stronger during the 1990s than in earlier periods. There is no clear …

) as one way in which to transfer wealth to poor societies, leading to democracy. The most recent literature assesses this … point better. We create models of democracy and use estimates of FDI stock for 107-120 countries over the 1970-2000 time … period as a principal control variable. We find that FDI Granger-causes democracy to a greater degree than the other way …

empirically the complex relationship between democracy and FDI in a systematic way, using cross-sectional and panel data analysis …

women's rights; in particular, (i) whether the effects are stronger if a member country has a higher level of democracy; and … with a higher degree of democracy. These findings are robust to the choice of control variables and the method of …

. We find that emigration and human capital both increase democracy and economic freedom. This implies that unskilled …