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The Fertility Gap and Economic Freedom
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2023Abstract The difference between desired fertility and achieved fertility is called the fertility gap. This paper investigates the relationship between economic freedom and the fertility gap across the United States since greater economic freedom may empower individuals to choose work more compatible with their family goals.
Clara E. Piano, Lyman R. Stone
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Political freedom and economic freedom
European Review, 2000This article attempts to outline the development in our time of two ideas of freedom. At first, economic freedom depended on political freedom and the aim of both was moral improvement. From the beginning of the 20th century, economic freedom has become an end in itself and political freedom has given up any moral claim; both ideas of freedom are no ...
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International Journal of Social Economics, 1993
Makes the distinction between negative freedom or liberty, which means the absence of constraint and compulsion, and positive freedom, which always implies the power to make one′s will effective to gain access to a chosen alternative. Argues that positive freedom can be used either creatively or destructively.
Lewis E. Hill, James E. Jonish
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Makes the distinction between negative freedom or liberty, which means the absence of constraint and compulsion, and positive freedom, which always implies the power to make one′s will effective to gain access to a chosen alternative. Argues that positive freedom can be used either creatively or destructively.
Lewis E. Hill, James E. Jonish
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The Determinants of Economic Freedom: A Survey
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2018A large literature has found positive associations between economic freedom and income, growth, and a variety of other desirable outcomes. This paper surveys the literature that seeks to explain the causes of economic freedom. Some of the most consistent findings in this literature are that current levels of economic freedom are strongly correlated ...
Lawson, Robert +2 more
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2013
What economic rights do libertarians believe we have? We have a general right to conduct our financial and commercial affairs as we see fit, without having to justify ourselves or answer to society at large.
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What economic rights do libertarians believe we have? We have a general right to conduct our financial and commercial affairs as we see fit, without having to justify ourselves or answer to society at large.
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AID, ECONOMIC FREEDOM, AND GROWTH
Contemporary Economic Policy, 2009Foreign aid has often been intended by donors to entice recipient nations into policy and institutional reforms favorable to private sector economic development. In this study, we investigate the relationship between aid and changes to economic freedom in recipient nations over the 1990–2000 decade. The evidence is mixed.
Heckelman, Jac C., Knack, Stephen
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Freedom, Entrepreneurship and Economic Progress
The Journal of Entrepreneurship, 2006All countries have people with an entrepreneurial spirit, but in far too many of them their talent and drive lie fallow. We argue that the most fertile soil for the seeds of entrepreneurship consists of the freedom and informed discipline that characterise market economies.
Jeff R. Clark, Dwight Lee
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Alienation, Freedom, and Economic Organization
Journal of Political Economy, 1971This paper discusses the classical liberal doctrine that capitalism is conducive to individual freedom in the light of the Marxian doctrine that capitalism causes alienation. It first examines the literature on alienation, attempting to develop a meaningful definition and elucidate its economic origins.
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Will Economic Freedom Lead to Political Freedom?
2020In the Middle Ages, a theologian named Saint Augustine said humanity has three great evil desires. The first is the desire for money and wealth. The second is the desire for power, honor, and reputation. The third is lust. Most of human history developed under the domination of these three desires. From this perspective, what will be brought about from
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The Economic and Academic Freedom of Universities
Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine, 1970Publisher Summary This chapter discusses the economic and academic freedom of universities. Freedom is one of those concepts, like democracy, happiness, virtue, or even, in your own line of business, health, which are perfectly intelligible to everybody until you come to examine them. Everybody knows what he means by any one of these words.
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