Efficient constitutional change depends on ability of bargaining parties to overcome such inherent problems of political change as commitment and credibility (Galiani, Torrens, and Yanguas, 2014; Congleton, 2011; Boettke and Coyne, 2009). This paper studies how constitutional bargaining leads to a...

Does economic freedom lead to more or less conflict? Numerous authors argue that markets create conflict, whereas many advocates of economic freedom from Adam Smith to Milton Friedman argued the opposite. This topic has not yet been investigated empirically. This article examines the various...