The arguments that property rights and taxation positively affect development are well established in separate … literatures, but the link between property rights and taxation is understudied. To address this gap, we theorize that …

labour) to achieve two goals. First, like other distortions such as taxation, limited property rights reduce peasants' income … from their own plots, generating a cheap labour force. Second, and unlike taxation, they force peasants to remain in the …

welfare states have experienced faster, bigger and more consistent increases in these areas, compared to the smaller European … and the so called liberal welfare states. The market economy and globalization hence do not pose threats to these welfare … decreases the economic freedom index by definition, but the welfare states compensate in other areas, such as legal structure …