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Globalization, Freedoms and Economic convergence: an empirical exploration of a trivariate relationship using a large panel

open access: yesInternational Economics and Economic Policy, 2021
Using a large panel for 95 countries and the 1972-2014 period, this paper analyses the interactions among globalization, political & civil rights and economic convergence, through a simultaneous estimation technique. We use a multi-dimensional, de facto,
Jorge Braga De Macêdo   +2 more
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Economic freedom and philanthropy

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2021
The correlations between economic freedom and human capabilities (e.g., income, health, education, happiness) are robust and well-documented. Using panel data for US charitable donations from itemized tax returns and the Economic Freedom of North America (EFNA) Index, we examine the state-level correlation between economic freedom and philanthropy in ...
Scott Beaulier, Jeremy Jackson
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High liberalism and weak economic freedoms

open access: yesCritical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, 2018
In Free Market Fairness, John Tomasi argues that a wider range of private economic freedoms should be included amongst the high liberal set of basic rights than is normally thought.
Katy Wells, Wells, Katy
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Economic freedom

The cornerstones of economic freedom (EF) are personal choice, voluntary exchange, open markets, and clearly defined and enforced property rights. The Fraser Institute and the Heritage Foundation publish indexes of EF. Although many empirical studies on the relation between (changes in) EF and economic growth are flawed, there seems to be a positive ...
Jakob de Haan, Jan-Egbert Sturm
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Which freedoms benefit the poor? A two‐horse race between economic and political freedoms on health‐adjusted life expectancy and child mortality, 1990–2020 [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of International Development
We examine theoretically and empirically whether democratic rights might be superior to economic rights in a two-horse race, utilizing indicators of poverty reduction, such as health-adjusted life expectancy (HALE) and child mortality as outcomes.
Indra De Soysa
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Economic Sanctions and Political Repression: Assessing the Impact of Coercive Diplomacy on Political Freedoms

open access: yesHuman Rights Review, 2009
This article offers a thorough analysis of the unintended impact economic sanctions have on political repression-referred to in this study as the level of the government respect for democratic freedoms and human rights. We argue that economic coercion is
, A Cooper Drury
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Economic Freedom and Political Freedom

2008
Historical evidence speaks with a single voice on the relation between political freedom and a free market. I know of no example in time or place of a society that has been marked by a large measure of political freedom that has not also used something comparable to a free market to organize the bulk of economic activity. (Friedman, 1962, p. 9)
Wenbo Wu, Otto A. Davis
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Economic freedoms and labour standards in the European Union [PDF]

open access: yesTransfer, 2016
The European Union internal market seeks to ensure the free movement of goods, services, capital and citizens. The primacy given to these economic freedoms has culminated in a socio-economic reasoning dominated by competition, bringing about side effects
Cremers, J.   +2 more
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On real economic freedom

Social Choice and Welfare, 2009
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