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 …

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 …

“Political philosophies that put a lot of weight on freedom and property rights have a hard time grappling with the …