Prados de la Escosura, Leandro - 2023
potential maximum. The expansion of economic freedom was abruptly interrupted by the world wars and resumed after 1950, to peak …This paper analyses economic freedom for a sample of 21 OECD countries over the past 170 years on the basis of a new … thoroughly revised Historical Index of Economic Liberty (HIEL). Long-term gains in economic freedom reached two-thirds of its …