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concepts of Freedom and Capitalism …Democracy (including freedom) is confronting various internal threats, among them the lack of quality of laws; but also …
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human has based his economical becoming on money, on capital, on accumulation. When we speak of the past of the capitalism …, we speak about different periods of time having different features. The early capitalism, starting from 1500, was based …
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The discussion in Chapter 1 provides a useful general introduction to the subject of freedom. We continue in this … chapter to analyze the details of applications of the Jensen-Meckling definition of freedom. We begin by addressing the … violations of freedom? …
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than the word freedom. Everyone favors freedom. We prize it not only for ourselves, but also as a characteristic of our … society. Most of us, however, have given little thought to what we mean by freedom. We use it to describe virtually everything … we believe is good or right. Freedom is a hurrah word. Advocates of all persuasions characterize their programs as …
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In this paper, the author analyzes Friedman's dogmatic approach towards freedom (part 2), his misuse of historical … examples (part 3), and his tautological definition of freedom (part 4). In fairness to Friedman, however, this paper concludes … by explaining why any attempt to define freedom is bound to fail, and also explains why freedom, however defined, must …
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capitalism, which has triggered or at least has contributed to the emergence of a type of capitalism dominated by finance …
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This paper tests the hypothesis that the presence of economic inequality may lead to erosions of economic freedom …. Using Economic Freedom of the World as a measure of free economic institutions, it finds that a one standard deviation … economic freedom, this evidence underscores the importance of stressing reforms free market proponents are confident will …
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We investigate emigrant self-selection according to institutional quality using up to 3,566 observations on bilateral migration flows from 77 countries over the 1990-2000 period. We relate these flows to differences in political and economic institutions. We improve and expand upon previous...
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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 …
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