This paper is about the measurement of specific freedoms – the freedom of an agent to undertake some particular action. In a recent paper, Dowding and van Hees discuss the need for, and general form of, a “freedom function” that assigns a value between 0 and 1 to a freedom or right and...

The last two decades have seen a spawning literature on social norms in the anthropology and sociology of law as well as in the economic analysis of law and in institutional economics á la Williamson. Much of this literature refers back to a seminal paper by Stewart Macaulay in which it is...

Volunteering by young adults for working in Third World countries on development projects emerged in Britain the late 1950s. Three decades later, the countrys largest volunteering sending agency, Voluntary Service Overseas, had sent more than 21,000 people abroad. The most common explanation for...