of economic freedom, and the risk and characteristics of economic crisis. After offering some brief theoretical … considerations, I estimate the effects of economic freedom on crisis risk in the post-Cold War period 1993-2010. I further estimate … period. Estimates suggest that economic freedom is robustly associated with smaller peak-to-trough ratios and shorter …

into ‘economic government' threatening not only economic disaster but the end of the world's first supranational project … ahead to new cosmopolitan possibilities freed from the twentieth century experiences of world war and economic depression …. What are at stake are the basic social arrangements created in the post-World War era for sharing the wealth, the burdens …