the law, and economic freedom. In particular, an increase in spending on law and order seems to improve the indicators of …

This paper explores the dynamics of press freedom around events that threaten or oust the incumbent regime of a country …. While democracies on average grant the press more freedom, our theoretical starting point is that democracies and … government. We estimate the dynamics of press freedom around both failed and successful coups and find that although press …

One of the major goals of libertarianism – and liberalism generally – is expanding political freedom: the opportunity … enhancing political freedom. The average citizen has almost no chance of affecting the outcome of an electoral process. In part … mechanism of political freedom. It allows for more meaningful and better-informed choice. It is also superior from the …

In The Choice Theory of Contracts, we explain contractual freedom and celebrate contract types. This Issue offers … penetrating critiques. Here, we reply by refining choice theory and showing how it fits and shapes the contract canon. I. Freedom …. (1) Charles Fried challenges our account of Kantian autonomy, but his views, we show, largely converge with choice theory …

Democracy (including freedom) is confronting various internal threats, among them the lack of quality of laws; but also … concepts of Freedom and Capitalism …

This paper suggests that attitudes towards markets can account for the stickiness of institutions of civil freedom … liberties are determined by informal institutions to a larger extent than economic freedom …

The purpose of this note is to discuss libertarian paternalism from the perspective of the concept of “freedom of … choice”. For libertarian paternalists, freedom remains defined as it is defined by neo-classical economists and “consent” to …