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economic freedom. The analysis relates to two kinds of economic liberties taken from the concept of freedom formulated by … Isaiah Berlin. While the first kind of freedom (negative freedom) depends on the external system (e.g. the constraints on the … prevent the free exercise of business (positive freedom): specifically, the social network, in which the company is embedded …
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economic freedom. The analysis relates to two kinds of economic liberties taken from the concept of freedom formulated by … Isaiah Berlin. While the first kind of freedom (negative freedom) depends on the external system (e.g. the constraints on the … prevent the free exercise of business (positive freedom): specifically, the social network, in which the company is embedded …
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This paper presents historical indices for the main dimensions of economic freedom and an aggregate index for nowadays … developed countries -(pre-1994) OECD, for short-. Economic liberty expanded over the last one-and-a-half centuries, reaching two … since the early 1980s has resulted in the highest levels of economic liberty of the last two centuries. Each main dimension …
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How has Latin America's wellbeing evolved over time? How does Latin America compare to today's developed countries (OECD, for short)? What explains their differences? These questions are addressed using an historical index of human development. A sustained improvement in wellbeing can be...
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liberty in the sense that basic human rights like freedom of speech, freedom to express one's religious beliefs, and freedom … approach by taking a welfarist view of the USA's espoused policy of promoting liberty in other parts of the world. However, we … to form associations improve welfare. In this case, liberty is directly consumed. We argue that this improvement in …
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thought experiment in the spirit of Rawls and with factual applications, that the fiat redistribution of rights to liberty in …
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constraints implied by political liberalism. We find that freedom of choice restricts sufficiency to rather wealthy societies and …
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The relationship between the distribution of political rights and that of economic resources has been studied both theoretically and empirically. This paper reviews the existing literature and, in particular, the available empirical evidence.Our reading of the literature suggests that formal...
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