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 …

The purpose of this paper is to establish a positive correlation between property rights and economic freedom. It seeks … to demonstrate that property rights lead to economic freedom. From a purely theoretical perspective, it has been assumed … that greater access to property rights leads to economic freedom, consequently to a sustainable economic growth. To …

economic freedom (i.e., lower government expenditures, lower and more general taxes and more modest regulation) on tolerance in …, positively related to preceding increases in economic freedom, more specifically in the form of more general taxes. We suggest …