Over the first decade of the 21st Century, the Internet and its convergence with mobile communications has enabled … the world’s population – use the Internet. However, during the same period, defenders of digital rights have raised … growing concerns over how legal and regulatory trends might be constraining online freedom of expression. Anecdotal accounts …

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 … potential maximum. The expansion of economic freedom was abruptly interrupted by the world wars and resumed after 1950, to peak …