Fraser Institute's Economic Freedom of the World indices in order to test if economic freedom affects emissions. I do so in … economic freedom is associated with environmental damage and whether deregulation is harmful to the environment or incentivises … their emissions. On the other hand, more economic freedom is likely to enable innovation and the adoption of green …

Institute's Economic Freedom of the World indices in order to test if economic freedom affects emissions. I do so in the context … question how economic freedom is associated with environmental damage and whether deregulation is harmful to the environment or … reduce their emissions. On the other hand, more economic freedom is likely to enable innovation and the adoption of green …

the crisis in terms of a "grabbing hand" theory of the state. Results indicate that those economies that chose not to have … floating exchange rates and chose to have inconsistencies between economic freedom and political and civil freedoms were most …

There has been much study of the consequences of economic freedom but, outside of the role of political institutions …, there has been little study of the determinants of economic freedom. We investigate whether religion affects economic … freedom. Our cross-sectional dataset includes 137 countries averaged over the period 2001-2010. Simple correlations show that …

There has been much study of the consequences of economic freedom but, outside of the role of political institutions …, there has been little study of the determinants of economic freedom. We investigate whether religion affects economic … freedom. Our cross-sectional dataset includes 137 countries averaged over the period 2001-2010. Simple correlations show that …

Using various indicators for economic freedom, it is shown that increases in economic freedom are robustly related to … freedom is not related to economic growth …

Ballot box voting is often considered the essence of political freedom. But it has two major shortcomings: individual … people around the world.People can vote with their feet through international migration, by choosing where to live within a … would also justify severe restrictions on domestic freedom of movement. That implication is an additional reason to be …

This essay tests Milton Friedman’s conjecture that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. For the … decade around 2000 indices of the degree of capitalism and the degree of political freedom are highly correlated and provide … Friedman’s conjecture. These apparently contradictory results are reconciled by showing that both capitalism and freedom are …

freedom as noninterference. The positive variety is freedom as self-mastery. However, recently there has been an attempt on … liberty uncovered from within the rich tradition of civic republicanism. Republican political liberty is freedom as …